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Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French - with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco - from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind.

Imperialism --- Kings and rulers --- Indigenous peoples --- Deposition of kings and rulers --- History --- Deposition. --- Politics and government. --- Political activity --- Algeria. --- British authorities. --- British colonisers. --- Emperor Duy Tan. --- Emperor Ham Nghi. --- Emperor Thanh Thai. --- French authorities. --- French colonial removal. --- Indian princely states. --- King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha. --- Moroccan sultan. --- Queen Ranavalona. --- Tunisia. --- colonial monarchies. --- colonising country. --- decolonisation. --- indigenous monarchs. --- last Burmese king. --- potentates. --- sub-Saharan Africa.