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Author : Philippus Baldaeus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book A True and Exact Description of the Great Island of Ceylon written by Philippus Baldaeus and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nadaraja
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900464444X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Legal System of Ceylon in Its Historical Setting written by Nadaraja and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Arasaratnam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131713320X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book François Valentijn’s Description of Ceylon written by S. Arasaratnam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: François Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Old and New East Indies) has for long been regarded as a primary source of information on a number of regions of maritime Asia. It is a veritable encyclopaedia, bringing together an array of facts, trivial and vital, from a wide range of contemporary and earlier literature, acknowledged and unacknowledged, and contains valuable excerpts from contemporary documents of the Dutch East India Company and from private papers. It is indeed a public archive. Despite this historic character of the work, it was never republished in full in a critical edition or made available in English translation. It has therefore remained relatively unknown and little read, except by the specialist wanting to quarry this mine of information for his particular purpose. This edition of Valentijn embraces the part dealing with Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the fifth volume of Old and New East Indies. The island of Ceylon is one of three areas that has received the most detailed treatment in the work, with substantial sections devoted to geography, topography, society, natural history and the record of historical tradition. He also provides an almost contemporaneous account of the Dutch conquest of the island. For his description of Ceylon, Valentijn has had access to a variety of sources - Sinalese, Portuguese and Dutch - and has presented this material to us with his characteristic attention to detail. The volume now published with an introduction and explanatory notes is many things for many people: a geographer's manual, a naturalist's handbook, an anthropologist's collection of caste and custom, an antiquarian's record of tradition and a chronicler's narrative of history. One of the most informative writings on Ceylon is made available, for the first time, to the English-reading public.
Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1911307843
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.
Author : De Silva
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644520
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796 written by De Silva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Peebles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313024715
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The History of Sri Lanka written by Patrick Peebles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Lanka—an island nation located in the Indian Ocean— has a population of approximately 19 million. Despite its diminuative size, however, Sri Lanka has a long and complex history. The diversity of its people has led to ethnic, religious, and political conflicts that continue to exist. Peebles describes the experiences of the country, from its earliest settlers, to civil war, to its current state, allowing readers to better understand this often misunderstood country. With an emphasis on the 20th century, chapters discuss the economy, religion, culture, and government of Sri Lanka. A timeline outlines key events in Sri Lankan history, as well as biographies of notable people, and a bibliographic essay.
Author : Ronit Ricci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108572111
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Banishment and Belonging written by Ronit Ricci and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all three are tied to narratives of banishment and exile. Ronit Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time: Sarandib, where Adam was banished from Paradise; Lanka, where Sita languished in captivity; and Ceylon, faraway island of exile for Indonesian royalty under colonialism. Utilising Malay manuscripts and documents from Sri Lanka, Javanese chronicles, and Dutch and British sources, Ricci explores histories and imaginings of displacement related to the island through a study of the Sri Lankan Malays and their connections to an exilic past.
Author : H. L. Seneviratne
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857284355
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book The Anthropologist and the Native written by H. L. Seneviratne and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of 20 essays by international scholars collated in honor of Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, whose writings have contributed to the fields of South Asian studies and anthropology.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ceylon Historical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Rajpal Kumar De Silva
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004089792
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796 written by R. Rajpal Kumar De Silva and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rohan Bastin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789203678
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The Domain of Constant Excess written by Rohan Bastin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sri Lankan ethnic conflict that has occurred largely between Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus is marked by a degree of religious tolerance that sees both communities worshiping together. This study describes one important site of such worship, the ancient Hindu temple complex of Munnesvaram. Standing adjacent to one of Sri Lanka's historical western ports, the fortunes of the Munnesvaram temples have waxed and waned through the years of turbulence, violence and social change that have been the country's lot since the advent of European colonialism in the Indian Ocean. Bastin recounts the story of these temples and analyses how the Hindu temple is reproduced as a center of worship amidst conflict and competition.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226615981
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The Work of Culture written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-11-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the product of two decades of field research by one of Sri Lanka's distinguished anthropological interpreters.
Author : Carl Muller
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181588
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Colombo written by Carl Muller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombo is in the throes of an explosion. Its face changes continuously, its vices are legion, its future as yet obscure and its paths speak of sunlight as well as of shadow.-' Carl Muller begins his quasi-fictional portrait of this beautiful, war-torn city by describing the great battles fought over it by European colonizers-. In AD 1505, a Portuguese fleet blown off-course took shelter in Galle, overthrew the local kings, fortified Colombo and decided to stay. The Dutch came along, ousted the Portuguese, made Colombo their capital and ruled till the British arrived and sent them packing. Muller intersperses the tales of the past into descriptions of the battles that are being fought in Colombo today"political battles in which vested interests play a major role as well as battles fought on the individual level in the struggle to survive: young women and children turning to prostitution to earn an extra buck, people begging in the streets to make ends meet, unemployed young men turning to crime in frustration, students demonstrating against atrocities, lovers pining for nightfall in order to push away loneliness if only for a few moments... Written in Muller's lucid style, Colombo: A Novel is a chronicle of a city's trials and triumphs.
Author : Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474224865
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Commun(icat)ing Bodies written by Anna-Katharina Höpflinger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system of religion. This innovative and ground-breaking volume studies these systems and the role that the body plays in their organization through the perspective of the concept of body as a medium and by drawing on media and communication theory.
Author : Elizabeth J. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351400754
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Religion, Space and Conflict in Sri Lanka written by Elizabeth J. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Ceylon Historical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nihal Perera
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317962591
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book People's Spaces written by Nihal Perera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and influence. People’s Spaces attempts to understand the struggle between people and institutions in the spaces they make. Current literature on cities and planning often looks at popular resistance to institutional authority through open, mass-movement protest. These views overlook the fact that subaltern classes are not often afforded the luxury of open, organized political protest. People’s Spaces investigates individual’s diverse approaches in reconciling the difference between their spatial needs and spatial availability. Through case studies in Southeast Asia, India, Nepal, and Central Asia, the book explores how people accommodate their spatial needs for everyday activities and cultural practices within a larger abstract spatial context produced by the power-holders.
