| Description |
xvi, 772 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
The world readers |
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World readers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [745]-750) and index. |
| Contents |
From ancient to early modern. Buddhist visions of a primordial past / Anonymous, comp. Mahanama Thera ; A Tamil Hindu Vijaya: Yalpana Vaipava Malai / Anonymous ; The saga of Dutugemunu / Devarakkhita Jayabahu Dharmakirti ; Sirisamghabodhi and the ideals of Buddhist kingship / Anonymous, comp. Mahanama Thera ; Anuradhapura: fifth-century observations by a Chinese Buddhist monk / Fa-Hien ; Path of purification / Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa ; A hydraulic civilization / Chandra Richard de Silva ; Sigiri graffiti / Anonymous ; Set in stone / Mahinda IV and Anonymous ; Anuradhapura: a photographic essay / John Clifford Holt ; Tamil identity in ancient Sri Lanka / K. Indrapala ; The indigenous Veddhas / Robert Knox ; Tamilnadus in Rajarata / Charles Hoole ; Promulgations of a Polonnaruva king / Parakramabahu I ; Buddhist sculpture at Polonnaruva: a photographic essay / John Clifford Holt ; The abduction of King Parakramabahu II / Mayurapada Buddhaputra ; Dambadeni Asna / Anonymous ; Alakeshvara Yuddhaya / Anonymous ; The observations of Ibn Battuta / Ibn Battuta ; Saelalihini Sandesaya (The starling's message) / Sri Rahula -- |
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The colonial encounter. Sri Lanka: national identity and the impact of colonialism / K.M. de Silva ; The Portuguese: an introduction / Jorge Flores ; An early observer / Duarte Barbosa ; Visions from the mid-sixteenth century: the economist, the viceroy, and the missionary / António Pessoa, Dom Afonso de Noronha, and Fr. Manuel de Morais ; The spin doctors at work: the island as "New Portugal" / Francisco Rodrigues Silveira and Jorge Pinto de Azevedo ; Kandy in the 1630s: through the eyes of a soldier-poet and a soldier-ethnographer / Anonymous and Constantino de Sá de Miranda ; The final dreamers / Joāo Ribeiro and Fernāo de Queiroz ; The Catholics' last sigh: oratorian missionaries in eighteenth-century Kandy / M. Da Costa Nunes ; The Dutch: an introduction ; A Dutch prelude / Sebald de Weert ; Jaffina and Kandy through eyes of a Dutch reformed Predikant / Philip Baldaeus ; The price of good cinnamon / Sinnappah Arasaratnam ; How the Dutch ruled / Ryckloff Van Goens ; Dutch policy towards Buddhism in Sri Lanka / K. W. Goonewardena ; The British: an introduction ; A British description of Colombo, 1807 / James Cordiner ; The final tragedy of the Kandyan Kingdom / John Davy ; The rebellion of 1818 and consolidation of British rule / Jonathan Forbes ; The 1848 rebellion / Governor Torrington ; Leonard Woolf's Ceylon / Leonard Woolf ; The establishment of the tea industry in Ceylon / L.A. Wickremeratne ; Kandyan culture in the colonial era: an introduction ; Vimaladharmasurya: the first Kandyan king / Anonymous ; Concerning their religions... / Robert Knox ; Poetry and proclamations in the Kandyan kingdom / Anonymous and Kirti Sri Rajasimha ; An open letter to the Kandyan chiefs / Ananda Coomaraswamy ; Colonial postcript: the other eden / Richard de Zoysa -- |
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Emerging identities. Buddhist identities: an introduction ; Old diary leaves / Henry Steele Olcott ; The western invasion and the decline of Buddhism / Anagarika Dharmapala ; Ape Gama (Our village) / Martin Wickramasinghe ; Ten-precept mothers in the Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka / Justine Semmens ; Sarvodaya in a Buddhist society / A.T. Ariyaratne ; Politically engaged militant monks / Walpola Rahula ; Politics of the Jathika Hela Urumaya: Buddhism and ethnicity / Mahinda Deegalle ; A Buddha now and then: images of a Sri Lankan culture hero / John Clifford Holt ; Losing the way home / Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe ; Muslim identities: an introduction ; Origins of the Sri Lankan Muslims and varieties of the Muslim identity / Dennis McGilvray and Mirak Raheem ; The ethnology of the "Moors" of Ceylon / P. Ramanathan ; A criticism of Mr. Ramanathan's "Ethnology of the Moors of Ceylon" / I.L.M. Abdul Azeez ; Who are the Moors of Ceylon? / S.L. Mohamed ; The Bawas of Ceylon / R.L. Spittel ; The fight for the fez / M.M. Thawfeeq ; The Purdah's lament / M.L.M. Mansoor ; Sri Lankan Malays / M.M.M. Mahroof ; Tamil identities: an introduction ; Language, poetry, culture, and Tamil nationalism / A. Jeyaratnam Wilson ; The dance of the turkey cock - The Jaffna boycott of 1931 / Jane Russell ; Language and the rise of Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka / Robert N. Kearney ; The militarisation of Tamil youth / A. Jeyaratnam Wilson ; Womanhood and the Tamil refugee / Joke Schrijvers ; Translating remembering / Benjamin Schonthal ; Nallur / Jean Arasanayagam ; Christians and Burghers: an introduction ; Christians in a Buddhist majority / Paul Caspersz, S.J. ; On the meaning of "Parangi" and "Burgher": symbolic discourse of subordination / Michael Roberts, Ismeth Raheem, and Percy Colin-Thomé ; Emergent perspectives in modern art: the '43 group - formation of a Sri Lankan avant-garde / Larry D. Lutchmansingh -- |
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Independence, insurrections, and social change. Sri Lanka in 1948 / K.M. de Silva ; The Bandaranaike legend / James Manor ; After forty-five years / Howard Wriggins ; The Ceylon insurrection of 1971 / Robert N. Kearney and Janice Jiggins ; The Colombo riots of 1983 / S.J. Tambiah ; "In the month of July" and "Voyagers" / Jean Arasanayagam ; Patriotic TV / K. Jayatilake ; Search my mind / Jean Arasanayagam ; The great divide / Antoinette Ferdinand ; A land divided / Jean Arasanayagam ; Neither Sinhala nor Tamil - on being a South Asian in Sri Lanka / Sree Padma ; Female labor migration from Sri Lanka to the Middle East / Michele Ruth Gamburd ; Juki girls: gender, globalization, and the stigma of garment factory work / Caitrin Lynch ; A place with no room / Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe ; The wave / Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe -- Political epilogue. And then they came for me / Lasantha Wickrematunga ; Checkmate! / The Island ; Our Holocaust / The Tamil Guardian ; Moderation the only way / Lilani Jayatilaka ; Kingship-in-the-making / Doug Saunders. |
| Subject |
Sri Lanka -- History.
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Sri Lanka -- Civilization.
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Sri Lanka -- Politics and government.
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| Added Author |
Holt, John, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9780822349679 cloth alkaline paper |
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0822349671 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780822349822 paperback alkaline paper |
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0822349825 paperback alkaline paper |
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