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Author : Charles Pridham
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Total Pages : 530 pages
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Download or read book An Historical, Political, and Statistical Account of Ceylon and Its Dependencies written by Charles Pridham and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Vincent
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Total Pages : 956 pages
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Download or read book A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great-Britain written by Benjamin Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis B. McGilvray
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389185
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Crucible of Conflict written by Dennis B. McGilvray and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crucible of Conflict is an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It is also the first full-length ethnography of Sri Lanka’s east coast, an area that suffered heavily in the 2004 tsunami and that is of vital significance to the political future of the island nation. Since the bitter guerrilla war for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka broke out in 1983, the easternmost region of the island has emerged as a strategic site of conflict. Dennis B. McGilvray argues that any long-term resolution of the ethnic conflict must accommodate this region, in which Sinhalese Buddhists, Tamil Hindus, and Tamil-speaking Muslims are each a significant share of the population. McGilvray explores the densely populated farming and fishing settlements in this coastal zone, focusing on the Tamil and Muslim inhabitants of an agricultural town in the Ampara District. Drawing on fieldwork conducted over more than thirty years as well as on Tamil and Dutch historical sources, he describes the regional dominance of a non-Brahmin matrilineal caste of thirteenth-century Kerala origin. The Muslims, who acquired dowry lands and matrilineal family patterns through local intermarriages, have in the twentieth century emerged from Hindu caste domination and are now the Tamil Hindus’ political and economic equals. Crucible of Conflict offers a uniquely detailed account of Muslim kinship and community organization in eastern Sri Lanka, as well as a comparison of Tamil and Muslim practices and institutions. McGilvray concludes with an analysis of the interethnic tensions and communal violence that have intensified in recent years.
Author : Frederick Martin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230252966
Total Pages : 775 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by Frederick Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on all the countries of the world.
Author : Edward Westermarck
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Total Pages : 678 pages
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Author : F. Martin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230252982
Total Pages : 779 pages
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Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by F. Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
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Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004514929
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
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Author : Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library
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Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, with Indexes of Authors and Subjects, and a List of Historical Pamphlets, Chronologically Arranged written by Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584405
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 566 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 : Edward Westermarck
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788172681609
Total Pages : 1952 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)
Download or read book The History Of Human Marriage (6 Vols. Set) written by Edward Westermarck and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Longair
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526118289
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Curating empire written by Sarah Longair and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in themselves. Individual essays examine the work of curators in museums in Britain and the colonies, the historical display and interpretation of empire in Britain, and the establishment of ‘museum networks’ in the British imperial context. Curating empire sheds new light on the relationship between museums, as repositories for objects and cultural institutions for conveying knowledge, and the politics of culture and the formation of identities throughout the British Empire.
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 : London Institution. Library
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Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library. Additions from 1843-1852. An index of subjects. An index of authors and books written by London Institution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : William Upcott
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Total Pages : 606 pages
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Author : Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library
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Total Pages : 978 pages
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Author : Frederick Martin
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Total Pages : 940 pages
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