Author: CeylonPublisher:
ISBN:
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
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: 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:
ISBN:
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.
History of Ceylon: From the beginning of the nineteenth century to 1948
Author: Religion, Space and Conflict in Sri Lanka
Author: Elizabeth J. HarrisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351400754
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Space is dynamic, political and a cause of conflict. It bears the weight of human dreams and fears. Conflict is caused not only by spatial exclusivism but also by an inclusivism that seeks harmony through subordinating the particularity of the Other to the world view of the majority. This book uses the lens of space to examine inter-religious and inter-communal conflict in colonial and post-colonial Sri Lanka, demonstrating that the colonial can shed light on the post-colonial, particularly on post-war developments, post-May 2009, when Buddhist symbolism was controversially developed in the former, largely non-Buddhist, war zones. Using the concepts of exclusivism and inclusivist subordination, the book analyses the different imaginaries or world views that were present in colonial and post-1948 Sri Lanka, with particular reference to the ethnic or religious Other, and how these were expressed in space, influenced one another and engendered conflict. The book’s use of insights from human geography, peace studies and secular iterations of the theology of religions breaks new ground, as does its narrative technique, which prioritizes voices from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the author’s fieldwork and personal observation in the twenty first. Through utilizing past and contemporary reflections on lived experience, informed by diverse religious world views, the book offers new insights into Sri Lanka’s past and present. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience in the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies; war and peace studies; security studies; religious studies; the study of religion; Buddhist Studies, mission studies, South Asian and Sri Lankan studies.