Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies
Author: The Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies
Author: The Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies New Series
Author: Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies
Author: Asian Development Styles
Author: Ralph PierisPublisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170170495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Author: Asoka BandaragePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110838648
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Exploring Confrontation
Author: Michael RobertsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134355971
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Sri Lanka has been the meeting point of many ideologies and ways of being. This has spelt heterogeneity, syncretism and conflict. In drawing upon the practices of empirical research promoted by Western intellectual traditions, the author demonstrates the strengths of these practices through his contextualised engagement with the pogroms of 1915 and 1983, as well as other incidents, as at the same time he delineates some of the limits of empiricist rationality. This book is replete with rich ethnographic detail and serves as an exercise in historical anthropology which illuminates Sri Lanka's political culture. It not only opens out the contrast between Western and Indian world views, but also explores the human condition by bringing out the immediacy surrounding acts of victimisation and human beings in conflict.
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.
Refashioning Futures
Author: David ScottPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400823064
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at "deconstructing" Western representations of the non-West have been successful to a point, but that changing realities in these countries require a new approach. In Refashioning Futures, he proposes a strategic practice of criticism that brings the political more clearly into view in areas of the world where the very coherence of a secular-modern project can no longer be taken for granted. Through a series of linked essays on culture and politics in his native Jamaica and in Sri Lanka, the site of his long scholarly involvement, Scott examines the ways in which modernity inserted itself into and altered the lives of the colonized. The institutional procedures encoded in these modern postcolonial states and their legal systems come under scrutiny, as do our contemporary languages of the political. Scott demonstrates that modern concepts of political representation, community, rights, justice, obligation, and the common good do not apply universally and require reconsideration. His ultimate goal is to describe the modern colonial past in a way that enables us to appreciate more deeply the contours of our historical present and that enlarges the possibility of reshaping it.
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Historiography
Author: Robin W. WinksPublisher:
ISBN: 019820566X
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
This volume investigates the shape and the development of scholarly and popular opinion about the British Empire over the centuries.