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Author : João de Barros
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to 1600 A. D. written by João de Barros and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 484 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 : Donald Obeyesekere
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120613638
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Outlines of Ceylon History written by Donald Obeyesekere and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Classic Authoritative Work On Sri Lankan History.
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Total Pages : 796 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philalethes
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120617889
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)
Download or read book History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Year 1815 written by Philalethes and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2003 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Principal Object Of The Book Was To Acquant The Reader With The Civil And Military Transaction, The Religion And Manners Of The People. Also Gives A Brief Sketch Of The Natural History Of The Country.
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 : Bhadrajee S. Hewage
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527584712
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Placing the Origins of the Buddha written by Bhadrajee S. Hewage and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding that the Buddha emerged from the Middle Gangetic region of the Indian subcontinent has been largely unchallenged for the past 200 years. However, can we truly trust our existing knowledge regarding the geographical locations associated with early Buddhism? Could the Buddha’s origins, in fact, lie elsewhere? Tracking the general theory explaining the Buddha’s emergence from the Middle Ganges, this book explores the lesser-known story of colonial Sri Lanka’s connections to the wider nineteenth-century orientalist quest of placing the Buddha across the northern expanses of the subcontinent. By doing so, this book highlights the many flaws and inconsistencies that continue to inform our current understanding of the Buddha’s geographical origins and urges us to rethink the very foundation on which our knowledge of early Buddhism is based.
Author : Chandra R. de Silva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351909797
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Portuguese Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives written by Chandra R. de Silva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portuguese Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives: Translated Texts from the Age of the Discoveries is designed to provide access to translations of 16th- and 17th-century documents which illustrate various aspects of this encounter, combining texts from indigenous sources with those from the Portuguese histories and archives. These documents contribute to the growing understanding that different groups of European colonizers - missionaries, traders and soldiers - had conflicting motivations and objectives. Scholars have also begun to emphasize that the colonized were not mere victims but had their own agendas and that they occasionally successfully manipulated colonial powers. The texts in this volume help to substantiate these assertions while also illustrating the changing nature of the interactions. The present volume contains chapters covering the Portuguese arrival in Sri Lanka and their first encounters with the island and its peoples, their subsequent relations with Kandy and Jaffna, and a final chapter on Portuguese relations with the Maldive Islands. A historical introduction provides the context in which the documents can be read and a select bibliography indicates the most recent and authoritative secondary works on the subject
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ceylon Branch, Colombo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ceylon Branch, Colombo and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the Society's Proceedings.
Author : R. A. Donkin
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692245
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Beyond Price written by R. A. Donkin and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1998 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has been intrigued by the origin of pearls, sensitive to their beauty, and convinced of their medicinal value for at least 5 cent. A mixture of folklore and observation preceded the earliest scientific inquiries. Fishing and trade commenced in S. Asia, between India and Sri Lanka and around the Persian Gulf. In W. and Central Europe, Inner Asia and China, and N. Amer. Freshwater pearls were probably known and treasured before those of marine origin. A refined nomenclature points to a long familiarity with etymologically related words for 'pearl'. Pearls were prominent among the luxury products of world trade and were high among the objectives of expeditions to the eastern and western Tropics. Illustrations.
Author : K M de Silva
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351182398
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book A History of Sri Lanka written by K M de Silva and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1912 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Total Pages : 1352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has appendices.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456623
Total Pages : 3477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 3477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : British Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kingsley Garland Jayne
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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vasco Da Gama and His Successors, 1460-1580 written by Kingsley Garland Jayne and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
