Memoir of Daniel Overbeek, Governor of Ceylon, 1742-1743

Memoir of Daniel Overbeek, Governor of Ceylon, 1742-1743 PDF Author: Daniel Overbeek
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Report on the Dutch Records in the Government Archives at Colombo

Report on the Dutch Records in the Government Archives at Colombo PDF Author: Ceylon. Government Archivist
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815

Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815 PDF Author: Alicia Schrikker
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415602X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 1780 - 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.

Anthropologica

Anthropologica PDF Author:
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Category : Austronesian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Includes reports of meetings of the institute.

Historical Essays

Historical Essays PDF Author: United States. Educational Foundation in Sri Lanka
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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The Adaptable Peasant

The Adaptable Peasant PDF Author: Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004165088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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This study analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism.

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indiƫ

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indiƫ PDF Author:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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"Literatur-overzicht" issued with v. 95.

Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763

Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763 PDF Author: Rene Barendse
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047430026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2000

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The Western Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth Century is the first of four volumes offering a sweeping panorama of the Arabian Seas during the early modern period. Focusing on the period 1700-1763, the first volume concentrates on daily life in littoral societies, examining long term issues including climatic change, famine, and the structures of fishing communities. The volume examines littoral societies in each of the major coastal areas of the Western Indian Ocean: East Africa, the Red Seas, the Persian Gulf, and its traditional ties to surrounding hinterlands as well as to the west coast of India. While having particular interest to readers concerned with Indian Ocean history, as an absorbing and innovative account of a much neglected albeit critical area and period, Arabian Seas, 1700-1763 will be of great interest to anyone interested in early modern maritime, social, or economic history. Kings, Gangsters, and Companies, volume two of Arabian Seas, 1700-1763 focuses on European relations with the major states and societies of the Western Indian Ocean during the eighteenth century. As such, it traces the major structural changes in African, South Asian, and Middle Eastern societies during this period. Chapters examine European communities and their relations with the societies of the Indian Ocean basin, the daily life of European soldiers and merchants, relations with Indian women, European views on the Indian caste system as well as the governmental systems they encountered. The volume also details the importance of Indian and Persian merchant communities in the Indian Ocean trading system and the impact of war on the economic development of this system during the eighteenth century. Men and Merchandise, the third volume of Arabian Seas, 1700-1763, provides a detailed examination of the economic and social structures in the Western Indian Ocean focusing on key commodities like bullion, textiles, and the slave trade. Readers will also encounter interesting vignettes of daily life: an Indian nautch girl worried about her inheritance, a Portuguese gangster-friar and pariah workers, the infamous buccaneers of Madagascar, coffee-traders from Yemen, Cairo, and the Crimea, and Iraqi and Iranian bankers who all had relevance to this vast economic system. Men and Merchandise provides insights into other traditionally ignored aspects in the traditional historiography including uprisings aboard slave ships, and details of maroon societies involving refugee slaves in India and Mauritius as well as Dutch slave soldiers in the Persian Gulf. As such, it will prove of great interest to any reader concerned with the social and economic history of the Indian Ocean basin. Europe in Asia, the fourth volume and final volume in Arabian Seas, 1700-1763, details the early phase of European territorial empire building in the western Indian Ocean basin. Particular attention is given to the much neglected history of the Portuguese Estado da India and the attempts of the Portuguese Crown to reform its administration and dwindling possessions in the eighteenth century. The volume examines the direct legacies of the longstanding Portuguese imperial presence in the Arabian Seas, including the experiences of Indian Catholic communities as well as the establishment of Indian settlements and communities in East Africa. Finally, the volume provides an exhaustive treatment of the structures and history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and English East India Company (EIC), the establishment of the vast private co...

Martyn's Notes on Jaffna

Martyn's Notes on Jaffna PDF Author: John H. Martyn
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120616707
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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This very intresting compilation, written by the son of he first photographer and journalist of Ceylon, is of the various important dates in the history starting with the advent of the Portuguese in 1505. Its goes on to cover the Dutch period in a short cap to reach the copious section of the British period that commenced in 1795 and continues till the authors time of compiling in the 1920 s. Although the eras of the Portuguese and Dutch are over in a few pages. The record of the events of the British stretch over 125 pages. Another wonderful part of this book is 442 short notes on the places, people, history, scandals, poetry, celebrations, arrival of ships that make the book interesting to those who know Jaffna only by name.

List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated

List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated PDF Author: John Penry Lewis
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 472

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