Exile in Colonial Asia – Kings, Convicts, Commemoration Ricci Yang Matteson

Exile in Colonial AsiaKings, Convicts, Commemoration\nAuthor(s): Ronit Ricci, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Clare Anderson, Robert Aldrich, Anand A. Yang, Ronit Ricci, Sri Margana, Timo Kaartinen, Jean Gelman Taylor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824883140, 978-0824883140\nSynopsis\nExile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: \""kings,\"" royals banished as political exiles; \""convicts,\"" the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and \""commemoration,\"" referring to .