A Century In Ceylon
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Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon
Author | : Arnold Wright |
Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9788120613355 |
Chiefly covers the 19th-20th centuries.
A Century in Ceylon
Author | : |
Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120618909 |
Ancient Ceylon
Author | : Henry Parker |
Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788120602083 |
An account of the aborigines and of part of the early civilization in Sri Lanka.
Islanded
Author | : Sujit Sivasundaram |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2013-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022603836X |
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.
Northern Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the 19th Century
Author | : Bertram Bastiampillai |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka
Author | : Alan Strathern |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 2007-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521860091 |
Discusses the effects of the arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka in 1506.