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Author : Paul Edward Pieris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ceylon and the Hollanders, 1658-1796 written by Paul Edward Pieris and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 210 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 : Louisa Balk
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047421795
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Local Institutions in Batavia (Jakarta) written by Louisa Balk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VOC (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company) was the largest of the early modern European trading companies operating in Asia. Its operations produced not only warehouses packed with spices, coffee, tea, textiles, porcelain and silk, but also shiploads of documents. Data on political, economic, cultural, religious, and social conditions spread over an enormous area circulated between the VOC establishments, the administrative centre of the trade in Batavia, now the city of Jakarta, and the Board of Directors in the Netherlands. The co-operation between the National Archives of Indonesia and the Netherlands resulted in this extensive catalogue of fifteen archives of VOC institutions in Jakarta. The VOC records are included in UNESCO ́s Memory of the World Register.
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 : G. Palanithurai
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788172110406
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity written by G. Palanithurai and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamil Nadu has been playing its legitimate role in the inter-government relationship on the Tamil issues. The magnitude of the state politics in the problems of Sri Lankan Tamils has reached its Zenith during the past one decade as a result of the eruption of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka. Since Tamil Polity has been fully dominated by ethnic political parts, each one has been trying its level best to project itself as the Vanguard of Tamil Nationalism. This book traces the approaches of the political parties and especially ethnic political parties towards the Sri Lankan Tamil issues. It also analyses to what extent the pressure extended by the ethnic political parties has been taken into account in foreign policy making of Indian Government during different periods. Significantly this work touches a very important aspect that to what extent the support extended by the political parties to help themselves to establish firm roots in provincial polity. This study sheds light on the ambiguous stand of the political parties in Tamil Nadu over this issue which ultimately has weakened the cause of the Tamils and mislead the Indian Government which adopted a tough stand without heeding to the plea of the majority of the Sri Lankan Tamils.
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 : Paul Edward Pieris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658 written by Paul Edward Pieris and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Scott
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816622566
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Formations of Ritual written by David Scott and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formations of Ritual was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Anthropology, traditionally, has articulated this ceremony with the concept metaphor of "demonism." Yet, as David Scott demonstrates in this provocative book, this use of "demonism" reveals more about the discourse of anthropology than it does about the ritual itself. His investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological-often, specifically colonial-objects. To do this, Scott describes the discursive apparatus through which yakku are positioned in the moral universe of Sinhala, traces the appearance of yakku and yaktovil in Western discourse, evaluates the contribution of these figures and this ceremony in anthropology, and attempts to show how the larger anthropology of Buddhism, in which the anthropology of yaktovil is embedded, might be reconfigured. Finally, he offers a rereading of the ritual in terms of the historically selfconscious approach he proposes.The result points to a major rethinking of the historical nature not only of the objects, but also of the concepts through which they are constructed in anthropological discourse. David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Author : William A. Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dutch Forts of Sri Lanka written by William A. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Willis Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429687419
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Colonial Administrations of Sir Thomas Maitland written by C. Willis Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939, this volume describes many of the more colourful episodes in the career of Sir Thomas Maitland, while, in its account of his role as governor, it makes a valuable contribution to the study of early colonial history. Maitland was one of the most important figures in the formative period of the colonial administrative service during and immediately after the Napoleonic Wars. After a distinguished military career, he had two long periods of office in Ceylon, from 1805 to 1811, and from 1813 until his death in 1824 he acted as Governor of Malta and then of the Ionian Islands, where he made a lasting reputation for his vigour and honesty, as well as for his autocratic methods of administration which brought him to be popularly regarded as a tyrant.
Author : Chris Nierstrasz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004234292
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Company: The Dutch East India Company and Its Servants in the Period of Its Decline (1740-1796) written by Chris Nierstrasz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Nierstrasz’ In the Shadow of the Company, offers us an insight into the relation between the Dutch East India Company and its servants as it slipped into decline. This relationship altered dramatically in the eighteenth century under internal and external pressures.
Author : Jan Hogendorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521541107
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Shell Money of the Slave Trade written by Jan Hogendorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade.
Author : Kenneth David Jackson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727827X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Sing Without Shame written by Kenneth David Jackson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cultural traditions analyzes the oral traditions of Indo-Portugese creole verse, as a synthesis from European, African and Asian sources. This musical, dramatic and textual syncretism defines tradition within the group and maintains the identity of the creole community. References are primarily to Indian and Sri Lankan materials collected in the late nineteenth century and to data in the H. Nevill collection, an extensive manuscript of Sri Lankan Creole texts from the 1870s or 1880s, housed in the British Museum. The importance of these texts is linguistic, anthropological and sociological. They are persistent in their ability to give definition to creole culture, surviving in South Asia from the seventeenth century to the present.
Author : Alexander J. P. Raat
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN 13 : 9087041519
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789) written by Alexander J. P. Raat and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2010 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details Loten's personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem -- a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, cover early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic, the exotic Dutch East Indies, and cosmopolitan London in the latter part of the century.
Author : Yasmine Gooneratne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book English Literature in Ceylon, 1815-1878 written by Yasmine Gooneratne and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ceylon Historical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. A. Bayly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317870670
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Imperial Meridian written by C. A. Bayly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire' -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era that, coming between the loss of America and the subsequent partition of Africa, constitutes the central phase of British imperial history.
