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Slave in a Palanquin
Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka
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Nira Wickramasinghe
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the wake of abolition. Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.
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Nira Wickramasinghe is Chair Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University. Her books include Metallic Modern: Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka (2014) and Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History (second edition, 2015).
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Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly Waters:
Slave in a Palanquin is one of the most remarkable and original works I have read on the history of the Indian Ocean. With her enormous scholarly gifts, Wickramasinghe endeavours to recover what she calls “fugitive lives,” a project that is as much as anything a meditation on the archive of slavery—its silences, fractures, and unexpected shards of illumination.
Slave in a Palanquin is one of the most remarkable and original works I have read on the history of the Indian Ocean. With her enormous scholarly gifts, Wickramasinghe endeavours to recover what she calls “fugitive lives,” a project that is as much as anything a meditation on the archive of slavery—its silences, fractures, and unexpected shards of illumination.
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eBook published on:
December 10, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780231552264
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13 b&w illustrations, 5 maps
eBook ISBN:
9780231552264
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Professional and scholarly;
