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SUMMARY:Islanded: the British Empire and Sri Lanka - Sujit Sivasundaram (G
 onville and Caius College)
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CONTACT:Prof Jane Chapman
DESCRIPTION:How did the British come to conquer South Asia? Answers usuall
 y start in northern India\, not Sri Lanka. This paper considers the arriva
 l of British rule as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorializatio
 n and state building\, framed by the island's traditions and maritime plac
 ement.'Islanding' recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy\, a k
 ingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs fascinated the British.\n
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LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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