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Author : Mary Leitch
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120613980
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Seven Years in Ceylon written by Mary Leitch and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1999 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Portraits And Many Lllustrations.
Author : Christopher Ondaatje
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781590482223
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Woolf in Ceylon written by Christopher Ondaatje and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Woolf was born in London in 1880 and spent five years at Trinity College, Cambridge where he began lasting friendships with men such as Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster and John Maynard Keynes. In 1904 Woolf applied to join the home civil service but failed the exam. Instead, he was sent to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as a cadet in the Ceylon civil service, joining the small group of white administrators who ruled the colony. He remained there for nearly seven years. In Woolf in Ceylon Christopher Ondaatje, who was himself born and brought up on the island, follows in the footsteps of Woolf. Drawing on his personal experience of Ceylon and empire, he compares the way of life during imperial days with that of the post-colonial era. We learn as much about the country, its people and their transformation of the country during the past century as we do about the man who used his colonial career to become one of the leading English men of letters of the twentieth century. Ondaatje s sensitive descriptions, illustrated with period and modern photographs, tell the compelling story of Woolf s sojourn in Ceylon and his developing disillusionment with the British colonial system. The result is a unique evocation of both a vanished imperial world and a colonial servant s enduring legacy in the contemporary culture of an enchanted but troubled island.
Author : Leonard Woolf
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780600710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Growing written by Leonard Woolf and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It is doubtful that any Empire at any time has been served by such an intelligent, dutiful, hardworking and incorruptible civil servant as the young Leonard Woolf. He was determined to do what was good but discovered for himself that colonial rule, be it ever so high-minded, is fated to do wrong. Growing is also a deeply affectionate account of the mystery, magic and savage beauty of Ceylon at the turn of the century, an island whose diverse beliefs and cultures Woolf had the time and wit to explore in detail.
Author : Leonard Woolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Village in the Jungle written by Leonard Woolf and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551997185
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Cinnamon Gardens written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1920s’ Ceylon, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, this evocative story of intertwined lives takes us behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Colombo to reveal a world of splintered families, conflicted passions, and lives destroyed by class hatred. Annalukshmi, a spirited young schoolteacher, finds herself caught between her family’s pressures to marry and her own desire for a more independent life. Then there is her uncle Balendran, whose comfortable life of privilege is rocked by the arrival of Richard, a lover from his past. Their uneasy reunion re-ignites tensions with Balendran’s powerful father, and threatens all on which Balendran has built his present life. Sensual, perceptive, and wise, Cinnamon Gardens is a novel of exceptional achievement—an exquisite tapestry of lives.
Author : Sir Samuel White Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon written by Sir Samuel White Baker and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sport in the Low-country of Ceylon written by Alfred Clark and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin Munsell Bliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopædia of Missions written by Edwin Munsell Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Weiss
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 193413757X
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Cage written by Gordon Weiss and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political power in a country at war. A must-read." —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Fall of Baghdad In the closing days of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, according to United Nations estimates, as government forces hemmed in the last remaining Tamil Tiger rebels on a tiny sand spit, dubbed "The Cage." Gordon Weiss, a journalist and UN spokesperson in Sri Lanka during the final years of the war, pulls back the curtain of government misinformation to tell the full story for the first time. Tracing the role of foreign influence as it converged with a history of radical Buddhism and ethnic conflict, The Cage is a harrowing portrait of an island paradise torn apart by war and the root causes and catastrophic consequences of a revolutionary uprising caught in the crossfire of international power jockeying. Gordon Weiss has lived in New York and worked in numerous conflict and natural disaster zones including the Congo, Uganda, Darfur, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Syria, and Haiti. Employed by the United Nations for over two decades, he continues to consult on war, extremism, peace building, and human rights.
Author : Samanth Subramanian
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466878746
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book This Divided Island written by Samanth Subramanian and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samanth Subramanian has written about politics, culture, and history for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Now, Subramanian takes on a complex topic that touched millions of lives in This Divided Island. In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to an end the civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere, leaving few places, and fewer people, untouched. What happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country's soul? Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past, he tells the story of Sri Lanka today. Through travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how the powerful become cruel, and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories.
Author : Angela McCarthy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526123398
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Tea and empire written by Angela McCarthy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’ in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country’s economy and shaping the world’s drinking habits, Taylor died in disgrace and remains unknown to the present day in his native Scotland. Using a unique archive of Taylor’s letters written over a forty-year period, Angela McCarthy and Tom Devine provide an unusually detailed reconstruction of a British planter’s life in Asia at the high noon of empire. As well as charting the development of Ceylon’s key commodities in the nineteenth century, the book examines the dark side of planting life including violence and conflict, oppression and despair. A range of other fascinating themes are evocatively examined, including graphic depictions of the Indian Mutiny, ‘race’ and ethnicity, migration, environmental transformation, cross-cultural contact, and emotional ties to home.
Author : Faxian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book ホッケンデン written by Faxian and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Notes on Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551997193
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Funny Boy written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable debut novel, a boy’s bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie’s journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults – with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence – is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The India-rubber Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronit Ricci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480276
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Banishment and Belonging written by Ronit Ricci and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking exploration of exile and diaspora as they relate to place, language, religious tradition, literature and the imagination.
Author : Great Britain. Indian Currency Committee, 1898
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Indian Currency ... written by Great Britain. Indian Currency Committee, 1898 and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
