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The Portuguese Empire in Sri Lanka

Author : StoryBuddiesPlay
Publisher : StoryBuddiesPlay
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese Empire in Sri Lanka written by StoryBuddiesPlay and published by StoryBuddiesPlay. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveiling Sri Lanka's Colonial Past: A 10 Chapter Exploration of Portuguese and Dutch Rule This comprehensive blog series delves into the fascinating yet complex history of Sri Lanka's encounters with European colonial powers. Spanning ten chapters, we embark on a journey exploring the arrival of the Portuguese in the early 16th century, their impact on trade, religion, and culture, and their eventual decline. We witness the rise of the Kandyan Kingdom, a beacon of resistance against European dominance, and their strategic alliances to combat Portuguese control. The narrative then shifts to the emergence of the Dutch East India Company and their relentless pursuit of establishing a foothold in Sri Lanka. Unveiling Layers of Conflict and Coexistence: Witness the battles and shifting alliances that unfolded between the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the Kandyan Kingdom. Explore the religious tensions that arose with the introduction of Catholicism and its influence on Sri Lankan society. Learn about the cultural exchange that took place, with the introduction of new architectural styles, languages, and customs. Discover the economic exploitation inherent in the colonial system, focusing on the highly prized spice trade. A Look Beyond Conquest: The Enduring Legacy This series goes beyond just military campaigns and explores the long-lasting impact of European colonialism on Sri Lanka. We examine the evolution of Sri Lanka's religious landscape, the influence of European architecture and language, and the enduring spirit of resistance that shaped the nation's identity. So, join us on this captivating exploration of Sri Lanka's colonial past. Uncover the stories of power struggles, cultural encounters, and the unwavering fight for independence that continue to resonate in Sri Lanka's present day.

Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka

Author : Alan Strathern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521860091
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka written by Alan Strathern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the effects of the arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka in 1506.

The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India

Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783447192897
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoltan Biedermann's book explores the Portuguese presence in Sri Lanka and South India with an emphasis on connections, interactions and adaptations. An introduction, six freshly revised case studies and an afterword provide historical insights into the making of Portuguese power in the region and point out new ways forward in the study of the subject. Themes explored include Portuguese diplomacy in Asia, the connected histories of Portugal, Sri Lanka and the Habsburg Empire, the importance of cartography for the development of Iberian ideas of conquest, the political mechanisms that allowed for the incorporation of Sri Lanka into the Catholic Monarchy of Philip II, and the remarkable resilience of elephant hunting and trading activities in Ceylon during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A long chapter delves into the comparative urban histories of Portuguese and Dutch colonial ports in South Asia and reveals intriguing connections between colonialism, local identities and cosmopolitan attitudes. Taken together, the essays in this book question simplistic contrasts between Europe and Asia as well as between the Portuguese and the Dutch empires. The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South Asia highlights the complex connections between the global and the local in early modern European-Asian interactions.

The Portuguese in the East

Author : Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781784539160
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese in the East written by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in the late fifteenth century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese. Undertaken at the height of Portugal's maritime influence, it helped to create an oceanic state ranging from the Cape of Good Hope to China. While Portugal's direct political influence in Asia was comparatively short-lived, its linguistic influence remains. Here Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya charts the influences of the Portuguese in more than 50 Asian tongues, illustrating the extent of Lusitanian links. Luso-Asian influence became engrained in eastern cultures in more subtle ways than other the European empires which followed, such as the Portuguese oral traditions in folk literature, now embedded in postcolonial Asian music and song. These Portuguese cultural legacies are a lasting reminder of an unexpected outcome of seaborne commerce.

(Dis)connected Empires

Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198823398
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book (Dis)connected Empires written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kotte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs. It explores nine decades of connections, cross-cultural diplomacy, and dialogue, to answer one troubling question: why, in the end, did one side decide to conquer the other? To find the answer, Biedermann explores the imperial ideas that shaped the politics of Renaissance Iberia and sixteenth-century Sri Lanka. (Dis)connected Empires argues that, whilst some of these ideas and the political idioms built around them were perceived as commensurate by the various parties involved, differences also emerged early on. This prepared the ground for a new kind of conquest politics, which changed the inter-imperial game at the end of the sixteenth century. The transition from suzerainty-driven to sovereignty-fixated empire-building changed the face of Lankan and Iberian politics forever, and is of relevance to global historians at large. Through its scrutiny of diplomacy, political letter-writing, translation practices, warfare, and art, (Dis)connected Empires paints a troubling panorama of connections breeding divergence and leading to communicational collapse. It examines a key chapter in the pre-history of British imperialism in Asia, highlighting how diplomacy and mutual understandings can, under certain conditions, produce conquest.

Re-exploring the Links

Author : Jorge Manuel Flores
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447054904
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (549 download)

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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

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History

Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1911307843
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (113 download)

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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.

The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India

Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783447100625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Jaffna Under the Portuguese

Author : Tikiri Abeyasinghe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jaffna Under the Portuguese written by Tikiri Abeyasinghe and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief study covering the period, 1505-1648; based on archival records available in Portugal and historical archives at Goa.

Portuguese Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Author : Chandra R. de Silva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351909797
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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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

The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700

Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700 written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal, a tiny nation with around a million inhabitants, created a world empire between the 15th and 17th centuries which left vestiges in Africa and Asia as late as the 1970s. To illuminate the Asian dimension of this empire - to show how it came into being and how it changed over time - Dr Subrahmanyam explores the interaction of international and local factors in Europe, Asia and Africa alike. This is a contribution to the early modern history of Asia; as well as to the study of European expansion.

Education in Sri Lanka Under the Portuguese

Author : W. L. A. Don Peter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Education in Sri Lanka Under the Portuguese written by W. L. A. Don Peter and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700

Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470672919
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700 written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that considers Asian and European perspectives. Features an argument-driven history with a clear chronological structure Considers the latest developments in English, French, and Portuguese historiography Offers a balanced view in a divisive area of historical study Includes updated Glossary and Guide to Further Reading

The Portuguese in India

Author : Frederick Charles Danvers
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120603912
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese in India written by Frederick Charles Danvers and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1988 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being A History Of The Rise And Decline Of Their Eastern Empire Vol. I: From 1481 To 1571; Vol. Ii: From 1571 To 1894.

Empires and Bureaucracy in World History

Author : Peter Crooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131672106X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Empires and Bureaucracy in World History written by Peter Crooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval European empires, while a genuinely world-historical perspective is provided by chapters on China, the Incas and the Ottomans. The editors identify a paradox in how bureaucracy operated on the scale of empires and so help explain why some empires endured for centuries while, in the contemporary world, empires fail almost before they begin. By adopting a cross-chronological and world-historical approach, the book challenges the abiding association of bureaucratic rationality with 'modernity' and the so-called 'Rise of the West'.

The Portuguese in the East

Author : Shihan de S. Jayasuriya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786729767
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese in the East written by Shihan de S. Jayasuriya and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Expanding Portuguese Empire and the Tamil Economy, Sixteenth-eighteenth Centuries

Author : S. Jeyaseela Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788173048029
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Expanding Portuguese Empire and the Tamil Economy, Sixteenth-eighteenth Centuries written by S. Jeyaseela Stephen and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of trade in horses, elephants and the phenomenal growth of bulk goods in Asia besides export of saltpetre, pearls and diamonds to Portugal. Bullions were imported and it resulted in the monetization of economy and accumulation of capital on the Tamil coast. The Tamil coastal region is taken as a micro- historical unit which constituted the fulcrum of the entire maritime commercial system between South India and south-East Asia. The aims and policies of the Portuguese and the economic effects, their success and failure and how their significant role changed the then existing commercial topography and the traditional pattern of trade are brought out clearly in this volume. The author convincingly argues on the basis of the Portuguese sources that the years of Portuguese presence in the Tamil coast was a period of great economic revival and prosperity, a period of extensive contacts which signalled the growth of a vibrant regional economy that was integrated with the then emerging global economic system.