Author: CeylonPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A Collection of the Legislative Acts of His Majesty's Government of Ceylon
Author: CeylonA Collection of Legislative Acts of the Ceylon Government from 1796: Containing proclamations, regulations, charters, and orders in council; from 1796 to 1833
Author: CeylonA Collection of Legislative Acts of the Ceylon Government from 1796
Author: CeylonA Collection of Proclamations and Other Legislative Acts of His Majesty's Government of Ceylon Affecting the Kandyan Provinces
Author: CeylonBuddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law
Author: Benjamin SchonthalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107152232
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law.
A Collection of Legislative Acts of the Ceylon Government from 1796: Containing ordinances, orders in council, and letters patent; from 1833 to 1852
Author: CeylonCatalogue of Books in the Library at the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
Author: Gray's Inn. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Slave in a Palanquin
Author: Nira WickramasinghePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231552262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued presence of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century has practically vanished from collective memory in both the Sinhalese and Tamil communities. Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in the wake of abolition. She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who sought permission for his son to be circumcised; and others, enslaved or emancipated, who challenged their status. Drawing on legal cases, petitions, and other colonial records to recover individual voices and quotidian moments, Wickramasinghe offers a meditation on the archive of slavery. She examines how color-based racial thinking gave way to more nuanced debates about identity, complicating conceptions of blackness and racialization. A deeply interdisciplinary book with a focus on recovering subaltern resistance, Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.
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