... and change, and impact and rupture. ²² Looking from South Asia, these debates are about the ascendance of the British Raj in place of the successor regimes to the Mughals, but in Lanka the sense of colonial transition is more complicated in that there were several transitions in this period, from...

... and eighteenth centuries. It then documents how the British sought to bind the island as a maritime space, discursively, geographically, legislatively, and commercially. Despite its partitioning of the island from the mainland, the interjection of British colonialism lay in the relocation of the island...

... of the nineteenth century. Yet it is important to critique the language of discovery used by British orientalists in Ceylon. For every claim of discovery recycled extant traditions in the midst of colonial expansion. In Kandy, Anuradhapura might have also been identified with the province of Nuvarakalaviya...

... brought with them Yunani traditions; Alexander Johnston, the British orientalist, noted that Muslim priests and merchants on the island were well versed with Avicenna and had Arabic translations of Plato, Euclid, Galen, and Ptolemy. ¹⁴ There was a confluence and mixture of Yunani traditions...

...The mechanisms of reform adopted by the British are too often cast in the role of causal forces in the creation of modern Sri Lanka. Instead, the age of reforms must be seen as another convolution in the dynamism of colonial state-making and islanding. The reforms were neither a start...

...This chapter summarizes the book's main themes. This book attempted to rework the chronology of Sri Lankan history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by moving beyond the traditional divides of the “Kandyan period,” “Dutch period,” and “British period” histories. It showed...

...The Indian legal system is often viewed as dysfunctional, with long delays and high transaction costs. How has this come to be? A partial answer is that the British Raj and the state in independent India underinvested in the legal system; there are too few courts and judges. But the content...

... revere land under which lie buried minerals needed by industry. These challenges emerged during India’s colonial period itself. The British Raj dealt with them by giving itself enormous power via legislation on Eminent Domain, allowing it to compulsorily acquire land for a public purpose. It also claimed...

...This chapter starts with a description of Kandy and the rule of the Nāyakkar kings who reigned until the British conquest of the city in 1815. Among various controversial topics addressed is the question of how perceived at the time were the “alien” (South Indian) origins of the Nāyakkar dynasty...

...This chapter discusses British socialism and the contributions of Friedrich Hayek's contemporaries to the discourse. The history of socialism in England predated the 1930s, but by that decade Fabian socialism had become perhaps the dominant strand. Meanwhile, members of Hayek's own profession...

...This chapter examines the relationship between the form of British rule and several measures of postcolonial development and analyzes British colonial legacies. It provides an empirical analysis of the divergent developmental trajectories among former British colonies through a cross-national...

...This chapter analyzes the case of Mauritius, a former directly ruled British colony. It investigates the determinants of Mauritian development in order to identify the mechanisms that link direct colonial rule and development, thereby shedding light on whether or not the relationship between...

...This chapter analyze the determinants of the poor development record of Sierra Leone, a former indirectly ruled British colony. The analysis reveals that indirect rule institutionalized an ineffective and despotic state which reinforced Sierra Leone's poor developmental trajectory both during...

...This chapter examines the causes of unexpectedly low development levels in Guyana, a former indirectly ruled British colony. It highlights the presence of despotism despite direct rule and explains that Guyana neither strengthened preexisting state structures, increased inclusiveness, nor began...

...This chapter examines the reason behind the successful state building and development of Botswana, a former British colony under indirect rule. It explains that a series of crises between 1948 and 1956 caused the breakdown of previous forms of colonial rule and created incentives...

... North. This chapter analyzes the concept of systematic corruption in the history of the U.S. It traces the evolution of the concept and definition of corruption as it developed in the philosophy of Aristotle, Polybius, Machiavelli, and Harrington, through to the eighteenth-century British Whigs...

... whenever disturbing events roiled the British economy. Bank Charter Act 1844 Bank of England Chartism country banks naturalization Bridges Thomas Cobbett William credit instruments Cruikshank George genre writing about economic matters and British credit economy growth of economics economic...

...During the second half of the eighteenth century, Dublin prided itself on being the second city of the British Empire. With regard to publishing, there is considerable merit in this claim. Dublin and Edinburgh had about 2,800 and 2,100 imprints, respectively. If their combined total...

... of operations and on a different challenge to troop health. Death of Wolfe The West Granby Marquis of John Manners Marquis of Granby Penny officers conventions of war paintings of the Seven Years’ War public opinion colonial compared with British Hayman Francis fiscal military state Mauduit Israel...

... of eighteenth-century British political debates in Parliament and the public sphere, and also demonstrates that Europe was considered a foreign and insalubrious environment, similar to the Atlantic colonies. As a result, health concerns in Germany were politically fraught and were integral to debates concerning...