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Lankan Naturalism Lankan Naturalism
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The Politics of British Gardens The Politics of British Gardens
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The Tropical Colonnade The Tropical Colonnade
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Creating Nature Anew in the Highlands? Creating Nature Anew in the Highlands?
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Abstract
This chapter studies the consolidation of a contradictory discourse to islanding, which sought to segregate the highlands from the lowlands. This discourse was used by the Kandyans, for despite their claims to universal sovereignty on the island, they sought to guard access to the higher altitudes. It begins with an account of the recycling of the indigenous in British natural history. It then analyzes two of the icons of the low country and up country, namely the coconut tree and the hill station of Nuwara Eliya. These icons capture the quintessential divide between the tropics and temperate zones that came to frame British understandings of the island. The discussion begins several decades before Kandy fell to the British and ends with establishment of Nuwara Eliya as an ideal retreat for the British in the 1830s, which saw the conquest of the deepest reaches of the land by the colonists. Therefore temporal shifts will be brought alongside the spatial politics of knowledge in this age of colonialism.
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