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1 online resource (396 pages) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Introduction: Querying the cosmopolitan in Sri Lankan and Indian Ocean history / Alan Strathern and Zoltán Biedermann -- Archaeology and cosmopolitanism in early historic and medieval Sri Lanka / Robin Coningham, Mark Manuel, Christopher Davis and Prishanta Gunawardhana -- 'Implicit cosmopolitanism' and the commercial role of ancient Lanka / Rebecca R.¡Darley -- A Pāli cosmopolis? Sri Lanka and the Theravαda Buddhist ecumene, c.¡5001500 / Tilman¡Frasch -- Beautifully moral:¡cosmopolitan issues in medieval Pāli literary theory / Alastair Gornall and Justin¡Henry -- Sinhala sandēśa poetry in a cosmopolitan context / Stephen C.¡Berkwitz -- The local and the global : the multiple visual worlds of ivory carvers in early modern Sri Lanka / Sujatha Arundathi Meegama -- Cosmopolitan converts:¡the politics of Lankan exile in the Portuguese Empire / Zoltán Biedermann -- Between the Portuguese and the Nāyakas :¡the many faces of the Kandyan Kingdom, 15911765 / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Through the lens of slavery:¡Dutch Sri Lanka in the eighteenth century / Alicia Schrikker and Kate J.¡Ekama -- Cosmopolitanism and indigeneity in four violent years :¡the fall of the kingdom of Kandy and the Great Rebellion revisited / Sujit Sivasundaram -- The digestion of the foreign in Lankan history, c.¡5001818 / Alan Strathern. |
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Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Querying the cosmopolitan in Sri Lankan and Indian Ocean history; The problem of 'cosmopolitanism'; Alternative approaches; Negotiations of power and culture over the long term; Sri Lankan historiography; The chapters; 1 Archaeology and cosmopolitanism in early historic and medieval Sri Lanka; Introduction; Textual narratives and the linking of archaeology to ethnicity; Indian Ocean trade; Pilgrimage; Patronage; Urbanism |
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Studying the cosmopolitan through archaeology in Sri Lanka2 'Implicit cosmopolitanism' and the commercial role of ancient Lanka; Unpicking 'implicit cosmopolitanism': the case of the coins; Coins from the Leslie de Saram collection; Pliny's Natural History and the Christian Topography: text and intertextuality; Godavaya, Mantai and the archaeology of port sites; Conclusion: Lanka at the sixth-century interface; 3 A Pāli cosmopolis? Sri Lanka and the Theravāda Buddhist ecumene, c. 500-1500; The making of the Pāli cosmopolis |
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The 'great translocation' and the Theravāda cosmopolis in the eleventh-thirteenth centuriesThe reconfiguration of the Pāli cosmopolis; Conclusion; 4 Beautifully moral: cosmopolitan issues in medieval Pāli literary theory; The Sanskrit cosmopolis and the Kāvyādarsá in Sri Lanka; The cosmopolitan care for language and the SubodhālaEkāra; Audience, anxiety and envy; Eroticism, kings and the Buddhist social aesthetic; The Pāli cosmopolis?; Conclusion; 5 Sinhala sande-sá poetry in a cosmopolitan context; Indigenizing Sinhala Sande-sás; Cosmopolitan frames; Paying tribute to kings and poets |
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6 The local and the global: the multiple visual worlds of ivory carvers in early modern Sri LankaRevisiting the 'local': ivory caskets and temple architecture; Reconnecting with the 'global': ivory caskets and European prints; Conclusion; 7 Cosmopolitan converts: the politics of Lankan exile in the Portuguese Empire; Lankan refugees in India before 1500; Border crossings and religious conversion in the 'Portuguese period'; From border crossing to long-term exile; Being a royal convert in exile: the 'Black Prince' of Telheiras; Prince Vijayapāla in Goa: exile at a global crossroads |
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Conclusion: exile as cosmopolitan practice8 Between the Portuguese and the Nāyakas: the many faces of the Kandyan Kingdom, 1591-1765; 9 Through the lens of slavery: Dutch Sri Lanka in the eighteenth century; Slavery in Sri Lanka; Constituting a world of plurality: the lived experience of slavery; Who were they to judge? Slavery in a European legal cosmopolis; The slippery grounds of codification: social hierarchies, freedom and bondage in Jaffna; Conclusion; 10 Cosmopolitanism and indigeneity in four violent years: the fall of the kingdom of Kandy and the Great Rebellion revisited |
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11 The digestion of the foreign in Lankan history, c. 500-1818 |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
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Sri Lanka -- History.
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Sri Lanka -- Civilization.
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Arts -- Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka -- Commerce.
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Biedermann, Zoltán.
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Strathern, Alan, 1975-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Biedermann, Zoltán Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History London : UCL Press,c2017 9781911307839 |
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9781911307815 (electronic bk.) |
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1911307819 (electronic bk.) |
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9781911307822 (electronic bk.) |
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1911307827 (electronic bk.) |
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