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Author |
: John Holt |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 791 |
Release |
: 2011-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822349822 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822349825 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sri Lanka Reader by : John Holt
Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.
Author |
: K M de Silva |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 666 |
Release |
: 2005-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789351182399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9351182398 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Sri Lanka by : K M de Silva
Sri Lanka is an ancient civilization, shaped and thrust into the modern globalizing world by its colonial experience. With its own unique problems, many of them historical legacies, it is a nation trying to maintain a democratic, pluralistic state structure while struggling to come to terms with separatist aspirations. This is a complex story, and there is perhaps no better person to present it in reasoned, scholarly terms than K.M. de Silva, Sri Lanka’s most distinguished and prolific historian. A History of Sri Lanka, first published in 1981, has established itself as the standard work on the subject. This fully revised edition, in light of the most recent research, brings the story right up to the early years of the twenty-first century. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Sri Lanka’s development—from a classical Buddhist society and irrigation economy, to its emergence as a tropical colony producing some of the world’s most important cash crops, such as cinnamon, tea, rubber and coconut, and finally as an Asian democracy. It is a study of the political vicissitudes of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization and the successive phases of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule. The unfortunate consequences of becoming a centre of ethnic tension and Sri Lanka’s long-standing relationship with India are also discussed. Exhaustively researched and analytical, this book is an invaluable reference source for students of ancient, colonial and post-colonial societies, ethnic conflict and democratic transitions, as well as for all those who simply want to get a feel of the rich and varied texture of Sri Lanka’s long history.
Author |
: Padma Rao Sundarji |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2015-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789351770312 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9351770311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sri Lanka by : Padma Rao Sundarji
The thirty-year-long civil war in Sri Lanka which ended in 2009 shook the island-nation. Now there is peace, rapid development - and a new government. But questions remain. What do Tamils and Sinhalese feel about their new country? What are their dreams for the future?Sri Lanka: The New Country is insightful and unusual reportage from the dispassionate eye of a foreign correspondent who covered the bloody conflict for two decades. It is anecdotal narrative at its best: about ordinary Sri Lankans, former Tamil Tigers, meeting LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran, princes, 'secular clergymen', army generals, Tamil Buddhists, Sinhalese Tamils, politicians and sailors wary of ghosts. As the writer traverses Sri Lanka's formerly embattled north and east, internationally stereotypes about the nation are challenged. The book is a tribute to a wonderful people, as they pick up the pieces of their fragmented national identity and get on with building a new country.
Author |
: Nalani Hennayake |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0739111558 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780739111550 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka by : Nalani Hennayake
In this book, Nalani Hennayake unravels how the development experience of a postcolonial society is deeply embedded in a complex historical relationship between culture and politics by focusing on the country of Sri Lanka.
Author |
: Nadishka Aloysius |
Publisher |
: Nadishka Aloysius |
Total Pages |
: 26 |
Release |
: 2021-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 6249823301 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9786249823303 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dressing Up with Archchi: A Diverse Picture Book about Playtime with Grandma by : Nadishka Aloysius
Enjoy a colourful afternoon of fun and frolic with a spirited youngster as she slays monsters and demonstrates that girls can be whatever they want to be - they only need an active imagination and the love and support of a wonderful grandmother! This charming picture book is about a little Sri Lankan girl who loves playing dress up with her Archchi (grandma in Sinhalese). She selects a colourful sari, decorates her hair, and puts on her (non-toxic) makeup with care. But she is no ordinary Asian Princess. My brother has come to collect me. Monsters and maidens we play. This Princess fights her own battles. She's not afraid. No way! Illustrated in vibrant colours this paperback also includes three activity pages and a DIY Jigsaw Puzzle! So, come spend and enjoyable evening Dressing Up With Archchi!
Author |
: Cherry Briggs |
Publisher |
: Summersdale |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2013-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857659262 |
ISBN-13 |
: 085765926X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Teardrop Island by : Cherry Briggs
The Teardrop Island follows in the footsteps of the eccentric Victorian James Emerson Tennent, along a route which takes Cherry to pilgrimage trails, tea estates, and rural regions inhabited by indigenous tribes, and through areas of the former warzone, delving under the surface of the contemporary culture via cricket matches and fortune tellers.
Author |
: Samanth Subramanian |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2015-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466878747 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466878746 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Divided Island by : Samanth Subramanian
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 |
: Michael Naseby |
Publisher |
: Unicorn |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1912690748 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781912690749 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sri Lanka by : Michael Naseby
Marco Polo in 1298 described 'Seyllan' as the most beautiful island of it size in the world. The Greeks and Romans praised 'Taprobane' and 18th century travellers praised 'Serendip' from which name comes the word serendipity - the luck of the unexpected.So it was for Lord Naseby, then plain Michael Morris working in challenging Calcutta, to be told one Monday morning on 10 May1963 that he must go urgently to Colombo, Ceylon to handle a crisis.This book is a celebration of Lord Naseby's subsequent unique involvement with Sri Lanka, its people and its politics over the last fifty years. During that time he has visited the island at least 20 times. He has been an official observer at a number of Presidential and General Elections, witnessed the opening of the Victoria Dam as an official guest, supported the Sri Lanka Government and people through a near-thirty year civil war and was instrumental in the UK's aid response to the devastating Tsunami of 2004. Indeed a year later the President of Sri Lanka presented him with the nation's highest award for non- nationals the Sri Lanka Ratna (Titular).This book is a powerful memoir of one man's very special relationship with a beautiful island and its people, his recollections from fifty years of a unique friendship between a British politician and the people of Sri Lanka.
Author |
: John Holt |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195107579 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195107578 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Religious World of Kīrti Śrī by : John Holt
This inderdisciplinary inquiry seeks to uncover how Buddhism was expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. It focuses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how he successfully revised Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism.
Author |
: Sujit Sivasundaram |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 381 |
Release |
: 2013-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226038360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022603836X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islanded by : Sujit Sivasundaram
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.