A style like this becomes a conqueror.
Sinhalese readers were reminded of their loyalty to their conquerors and their readiness to bear their share in the burden of responsibilities consequent on belonging to a worldwide empire.
However, the evidence reveals that local elites and rural communities jockeyed for respect and political entitlement through the manipulation of the symbolic capital of the conqueror.
It is not really accurate to call them 'indigenous peoples', since many of the residents were themselves immigrants or conquerors who arrived before the next wave of pioneer settlers.
The main aim of tsarism in the region was the military repression of the local population's resistance to the conquerors and securing the permanent public status of the country.
The debate turned on questions about the rights and duties of conquerors regarding the acquisition of new territories, and the problem of concluding a just and durable settlement.
On the basis of this reasoning, the customs of the conquered held an advantage over those of the conqueror by virtue of the fact that they already enjoyed support.
Third, many of the conquerors' actions would have led to increased mortality, even without the concurring action of new diseases.
