Author: Humphrey William CodringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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A Short History of Ceylon
Author: Humphrey William CodringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A Short History of Ceylon
Author: Evelyn Frederick Charles LudowykPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ceylon
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A Short History of Ceylon
Author: Humphrey William CodringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Short History of Ceylon
Author: H. W. CodringtonPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120609464
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Short History of Ceylon
Author: Humprey William CodringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Short History of Ceylon
Author: Humphrey William CodringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A Short History of Ceylon
Author: Humphrey William CodringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A Short History of Ceylon
Author: Wilhelm GeigerA 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 Short History of Ceylon
Author: Humphrey William CodringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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