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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka by : Charles A. Gunawardena
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka written by Charles A. Gunawardena and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,100 alphabetically arranged entries examine the history, geography, people, government, economy, art, and religions of Sri Lanka.
Book Synopsis The Mahavamsa by : Thera Mahanama-sthavira
Download or read book The Mahavamsa written by Thera Mahanama-sthavira and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Man-eater of Punanai by : Christopher Ondaatje
Download or read book The Man-eater of Punanai written by Christopher Ondaatje and published by Rare Books & Berry Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of a past rediscovered through a remarkable journey to one of the most exotic countries of the world - Sri Lanka. Full of drama and history, it not only relives the incredible story of a man-eating leopard that terrorises the tiny village of Punanai, but also allows the author to come to terms with the ghost of his charismatic but tyrannical father. More than a simple tale of adventure, Ondaatje's story reveals a colourful, but troubled, past.
Book Synopsis Narrating Africa in South Asia by : Mahmood Kooria
Download or read book Narrating Africa in South Asia written by Mahmood Kooria and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits, commodities and cosmologies circulated on the wings of the monsoon winds. The forced and voluntary migrations of Asians and Africans across the Indian Ocean littoral over several centuries have reverberated in the memories, literatures, travelogues and religious, architectural, and socio-political imaginations of both the regions. And, they continue to do so in various forms and platforms. This book explores nuances of various narratives on these long-term transcultural exchanges with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and Africans have been narrated in South Asian history and culture in order to unravel the nuanced layers of reflexive, rhetorical, stereotypical, populist, racialist, racist and casteist frameworks that informed diverse narratives in vernacular texts, songs, films and newspaper reports. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary approaches of narratology, Afro-Asian studies, and Indian Ocean studies, the contributors enunciate how the African lives in South Asia have been selectively remembered or systematically forgotten. Through multi-sited ethnographies, multilingual archival researches and interdisciplinary frameworks, each chapter provides theoretical engagements on the basis of empirical research in such regions as Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Hyderabad and Mumbai as well as in Sri Lanka. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of Ceylon by the Portuguese in 1506 by : Donald William Ferguson
Download or read book The Discovery of Ceylon by the Portuguese in 1506 written by Donald William Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Postage Stamp by : Frederick John Melville
Download or read book The Postage Stamp written by Frederick John Melville and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis DISCOVERY OF CEYLON BY THE PORTUGUESE IN 1506 by : DONALD. FERGUSON
Download or read book DISCOVERY OF CEYLON BY THE PORTUGUESE IN 1506 written by DONALD. FERGUSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sri Lanka by Rail by : Royston Ellis
Download or read book Sri Lanka by Rail written by Royston Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is a thorough overview of Sri Lanka's many riches, with a particular emphasis on touring by train. Also included are routes through the country utilizing the restored steam trains.
Book Synopsis Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by : William Stevenson
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century written by William Stevenson and published by Edinburgh : W. Blackwood ; London : T. Cadell. This book was released on 1824 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Ceylon by : H. A. I. Goonetileke
Download or read book A Bibliography of Ceylon written by H. A. I. Goonetileke and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To the Ends of the Earth by : Peter O. Koch
Download or read book To the Ends of the Earth written by Peter O. Koch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-05-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European explorers who dared to face the perils of the unknown have in recent times become shrouded in controversy. No longer esteemed as heroes, except in their homelands, these bold explorers are now seen as purveyors of disease, destruction and slavery whose only interests were finding gold, becoming famous, and spreading their religious beliefs. But, as the author of this work points out, these explorers broke down long-standing myths and broadened the world's horizons. Beginning with Prince Henry the Navigator's worldly vision of finding a direct sea route to India and concluding with Ferdinand Magellan's quest to be the first man to sail around the world, this work tells the collective story of the numerous explorers who sought to find a path to the exotic spices and other treasures of the Far East. Most of the explorers included in this work were of the same generation and several of them even sailed together. The book also examines the political, social and economic factors that ushered in the age of exploration and had such an impact upon the explorers.
Download or read book Discovery written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Re-exploring the Links by : Jorge Manuel Flores
Download or read book Re-exploring the Links written by Jorge Manuel Flores and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Ceilao occupied a permanent and singular place in the political imagination of early modern Portugal. Concurrently, the Portuguese left a strong imprint in the Sri Lankan collective memory of the period. Five centuries later, a group of historians, art historians, anthropologists, and linguists reflect on the multiple dimensions of this phenomenon by rethinking texts and maps, ruined churches and ivory caskets, oral tales and Creole communities. Authored by 15 international scholars, Re-exploring the Links is divided in four parts: "Political Realities and Cultural Imagination"; "Religion: Con. ict and Interaction"; "Space and Heritage: Construction, Representation"; "Language and Ethnicity, Identity and Memory". While published on the occasion of the Portuguese arrival in Sri Lanka five centuries ago, this book is far from being a celebratory piece. Re-exploring the Links does not conform to nationalist models of historical interpretation and refuses both the rhetoric of discovery and the rhetoric of aggression. The aim of the volume is not to celebrate "encounters", but to reinvent an academic debate, independent of any political agenda and concerning a history that is Portuguese and Sri Lankan alike.INTRODUCTORY ESSAYChandra R. de Silva, Portugal and Sri Lanka: Recent Trends in HistoriographyPOLITICAL REALITIES AND CULTURAL IMAGINATION S. Pathmanathan The Portuguese in Northeast Sri Lanka (1543-1658): An Assessment of Impressions Recorded in Tamil Chronicles and Poems Rohini Paranavitana, Sinhalese War Poems and the Portuguese Karunasena Dias Paranavitana The Portuguese Tombos as a Source of Sixteenthand Seventeenth-Century Sri Lankan History Rui Manuel Loureiro, The Matter of Ceylon in Diogo do Couto's Decadas da Asia Jorge Flores, Maria Augusta Lima Cruz A 'Tale of Two Cities', a 'Veteran Soldier', or the Struggle for Endangered Nobilities: The Two Jornadas de Huva (1633, 1635)RELIGION: CONFLICT AND INTERACTIONAlan Strathern, The Conversion of Rulers in Portuguese-Era Sri Lanka John Clifford Holt, Buddhist Rebuttals: The Changing of the Gods and Royal (Re)legitimization in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Sri Lanka Ines G. Zupanov, Goan Brahmans in the Land of Promise: Missionaries, Spies and Gentiles in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka Jurrien van Goor, State and Religion under the Dutch in Ceylon, c. 1640-1796SPACE AND HERITAGE: CONSTRUCTION, REPRESENTATIONZoltan Biedermann, Perceptions and Representations of the Sri Lankan Space in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Texts and MapsHelder Carita, Portuguese-Influenced Religious Architecture in Ceylon: Creation, Types and ContinuityNuno Vassallo e Silva, An Art for Export: Sinhalese Ivory and Crystal in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesLANGUAGE AND ETHNICITY, IDENTITY AND MEMORYKenneth David, Jackson Singelle Nona/Jinggli Nona: A Traveling Portuguese Burgher MuseDennis B. McGilvray, The Portuguese Burghers of Eastern Sri Lanka in the Wake of Civil War and Tsunami
Book Synopsis The Golden Age of Sculpture in Sri Lanka by : Ulrich von Schroeder
Download or read book The Golden Age of Sculpture in Sri Lanka written by Ulrich von Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington in 1992.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of Ceylon by the Portuguese in 1506 (Classic Reprint) by : Donald Ferguson
Download or read book The Discovery of Ceylon by the Portuguese in 1506 (Classic Reprint) written by Donald Ferguson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Discovery of Ceylon by the Portuguese in 1506 The inaccuracy of Tennent's conclusions on both points, viz. The notoriety of Ceylon cinnamon at the beginning of the Sixteenth century, and the intercourse of the Portuguese with Ceylon between 1506 and 1518, is abundantly demonstrated by the extracts given in Appendices A and C respectively. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Accessions List, Sri Lanka by : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Download or read book Accessions List, Sri Lanka written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sri Lanka, a Wild Life Interlude by : S. D. Saparamadu
Download or read book Sri Lanka, a Wild Life Interlude written by S. D. Saparamadu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on wildlife consevation.
