ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the colonial policy of exile, in the context of the Mughals, in the post-1857 period. The policy was still evolving during the 1860s and 1870s, long after the Revolt had been suppressed, and was used very effectively in the 1880s when Thebaw, last king of Burma (Myanmar), was exiled to Ratnagiri following the third Anglo-Burmese war – the human dimension of which story has been explored with great sensitivity by Amitav Ghosh in his semi-historical novel The Glass Palace.1
