Banished potentates: Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815–1955

Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous mon...

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney