Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bound of an Indian Ocean Colony by Sujit Sivasundaram Inspiration Others wake up when you

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Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bound of an Indian Ocean Colony by Sujit Sivasundaram Inspiration Others wake up when youHow did the modern nation of Sri Lanka come to be? In search of an answer to this question, Islanded returns us to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and to the advance of the British on the kingdom of Kandy, which saw the fall of the last foothold of kingly rule on the island. This moment saw the British undertake a process of 'islanding' and 'partitioning', which cast the island, its nature and geography, its supposedly religious and