Urban Origins in Southern Sri Lanka
Author | : Raj Somadeva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : 9789197321259 |
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Author | : Raj Somadeva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : 9789197321259 |
Author | : Suchandra Ghosh |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2021-09-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000462366 |
This book looks at the typologies of cities and ideas of urbanity. Focusing specifically on cities in South Asia, it analyses the unique planning concepts, archaeology, art, culture, life, and philosophy of various cities of ancient and modern South Asia. The book explores the concept of urbanity and the idea of an ideal city; it interrogates general notions of urbanity by juxtaposing city life in various periods and geographies of South Asia. By analysing the demography, architecture, rituals, and culture of various cities, it looks at the different spatialities of these places in terms of their size, population, commerce, and philosophy as well as the reasons behind the transformation of these places into urban centres. Drawing from various archeological and literary sources, the volume includes rich details about heterogeneity, rituals, festivals, social stratification, penal systems, famines, and insurrections in ancient cities as well as modern cities like Lahore, Dhaka, and Calcutta, among many others in South Asia. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of ancient and modern history, archaeology, urban studies, urban and town planning, urban sociology, urban geography, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, ancient and medieval architecture, heritage studies, conservation studies, and South Asian studies.
Author | : Louis M. Kyriakoudes |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780807854846 |
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. This transition brought about significant economic, social, and cultural changes in both ur
Author | : Ian Talbot |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2022-11-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000779815 |
This book provides a pioneering study of the historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the contemporary era in South Asia. The book provides a multidisciplinary analysis examining the environmental history of the city and bringing together contributions from environmental experts and practitioners as well as academics. Focusing on case studies stretching from the Maldives and Sri Lanka to the Indian subcontinent, the chapters trace linkages between the contemporary and earlier patterns of urban expansion and their environmental effects and consider lessons that can be drawn with respect to preventing future environmental degradation and mitigating the effects of climate change. An important contribution to the field, this book studies the contemporary environmental issues arising from rapid South Asian urbanization. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of South Asian studies, world history, and environmental history.
Author | : Leelananda Prematilleka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : 9789556132106 |
Author | : Mark Jarzombek |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2023-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1003820875 |
This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items – such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport – played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call "global trade" in the first millennium CE. The book coins the term "dark matter economy" to better describe this complex – though mostly invisible – relationship to normative realities. The first full integration of dark matter economy with the emerging global flows took place in South India and Sri Lanka at the beginning of the millennium. The book then moves to other places in the world – "sweet spots" – where a particular type of affluence was generated through the trade in luxury goods. This upstream affluence manifested itself in the creation of shrines, palaces, temples and engineering works that all thickened the landscape of memory, control and extraction and also served as a defense mechanism against intrusions from afar. The book also explains the collapse of dark matter economy as a result of the cumulative energies of colonialism, modernization and nationalism that make it hard for us today to come to terms with this history. The Long Millennium will appeal to students and scholars alike studying the trade networks and economics of the early Middle Ages as well as anyone interested in the effect of trade on medieval society in the first millennium CE.
Author | : Karl J. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-05-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317476808 |
This historical atlas is devoted primarily to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, while also covering Napal, Bhutan and Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The maps are accompanied by text which illuminates recent political, economic, social and cultural developments.
Author | : Zoltán Biedermann |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2017-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1911307843 |
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 | : Roger D. Long |
Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788125026419 |
This collection includes an appreciation of Wolpert s life and writings, and three of his previously unpublished essays. In addition it considers such subjects as premodern cities in South Asia, the Bene Israel in the Konkan, propaganda and the Raj in World War II, and linguistic nationalism and regional identity in Orissa.