Author: H. A. I. GoonetilekePublisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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A Bibliography of Ceylon
Author: H. A. I. GoonetilekePublisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Ceylon
Author: Henry MarshallPublisher:
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Ceylon Under the British
Author: G.C. MendisPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120619302
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Covers the period, 1796-1948.
A Bibliography of Foreign Missions
Author: Edwin Munsell BlissPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon: Ranunculaceæ-Anacardiaceæ. With plates I-XXV
Author: Henry TrimenMetallic Modern
Author: Nira WickramasinghePublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782382437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines – in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The ‘metallic modern’ of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic Modern describes the modern as it was lived and experienced by non-elite groups – tailors, seamstresses, shopkeepers, workers – and suggests that their idea of the modern was nurtured by a changing material world.
A History of Sri Lanka
Author: K M de SilvaPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351182398
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Sri Lanka is an ancient civilization, shaped and thrust into the modern globalizing world by its colonial experience. With its own unique problems, many of them historical legacies, it is a nation trying to maintain a democratic, pluralistic state structure while struggling to come to terms with separatist aspirations. This is a complex story, and there is perhaps no better person to present it in reasoned, scholarly terms than K.M. de Silva, Sri Lanka’s most distinguished and prolific historian. A History of Sri Lanka, first published in 1981, has established itself as the standard work on the subject. This fully revised edition, in light of the most recent research, brings the story right up to the early years of the twenty-first century. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Sri Lanka’s development—from a classical Buddhist society and irrigation economy, to its emergence as a tropical colony producing some of the world’s most important cash crops, such as cinnamon, tea, rubber and coconut, and finally as an Asian democracy. It is a study of the political vicissitudes of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization and the successive phases of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule. The unfortunate consequences of becoming a centre of ethnic tension and Sri Lanka’s long-standing relationship with India are also discussed. Exhaustively researched and analytical, this book is an invaluable reference source for students of ancient, colonial and post-colonial societies, ethnic conflict and democratic transitions, as well as for all those who simply want to get a feel of the rich and varied texture of Sri Lanka’s long history.
A Bibliography of Geography
Author: William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.)Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Islanded
Author: Sujit SivasundaramPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603836X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.
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