Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Monarchies, decolonisation and post-colonial Asia
All the king’s men: regal ministers of eclipsed empires in India
Decolonised rulers: rajas, maharajas and others in post-colonial India
The Himalayan kingdoms, British colonialism and indigenous monarchs after the end of empire
Conflict and betrayal: negotiations at the end of British rule in the Shan States of Burma (Myanmar)
Malaysia’s multi-monarchy: surviving colonisation and decolonisation
Celebrating the ‘world’s most ideal state’: Sarawak and the Brooke dynasty’s centenary of 1941
Refashioning the monarchy in Brunei: Sultan Omar Ali and the quest for royal absolutism
Colonial monarchy and decolonisation in the French Empire: Bao Dai, Norodom Sihanouk and Mohammed V
Loyalism and anti-communism in the making of the modern monarchy in post-colonial Laos
Indonesia: sultans and the state
Defending the Sultanate’s territory: Yogyakarta during the Indonesian decolonisation, 1942–50
The uses of monarchy in late-colonial Hong Kong, 1967–97
From absolute monarch to ‘symbol emperor’: decolonisationand the Japanese emperor after 1945
Dramatising Siamese independence: Thai post-colonial perspectives on kingship
Index