Author: Senarat Paranavitana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ceylon and Malaysia
Author: Senarat Paranavitana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan Diaspora
Author: Peter Reeves
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
ISBN: 9814260835
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Well over a million people of Sri Lankan origin live outside South Asia. The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lanka Diaspora is the first comprehensive study of the lives, culture, beliefs and attitudes of immigrants and refugees from this island. The volume is a joint publication between the Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS, and Editions Didier Millet. It focuses on the relationship between culture and economy in the Sri Lanka diaspora in the context of globalisation, increased transnational culture flows and new communication technologies. In addition to the geographic mapping of the Sri Lanka diaspora in the various continents, thematic chapters include topics on “long distance nationalism”, citizenship, Sinhala, Tamil and Burgher disapora identities, religion and the spread of Buddhism, as well as the Sri Lankan cultural impact on other nations.
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
ISBN: 9814260835
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Well over a million people of Sri Lankan origin live outside South Asia. The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lanka Diaspora is the first comprehensive study of the lives, culture, beliefs and attitudes of immigrants and refugees from this island. The volume is a joint publication between the Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS, and Editions Didier Millet. It focuses on the relationship between culture and economy in the Sri Lanka diaspora in the context of globalisation, increased transnational culture flows and new communication technologies. In addition to the geographic mapping of the Sri Lanka diaspora in the various continents, thematic chapters include topics on “long distance nationalism”, citizenship, Sinhala, Tamil and Burgher disapora identities, religion and the spread of Buddhism, as well as the Sri Lankan cultural impact on other nations.
Banishment and Belonging
Author: Ronit Ricci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A ground-breaking exploration of exile and diaspora as they relate to place, language, religious tradition, literature and the imagination.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A ground-breaking exploration of exile and diaspora as they relate to place, language, religious tradition, literature and the imagination.
Slave in a Palanquin
Author: Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231552262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued presence of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century has practically vanished from collective memory in both the Sinhalese and Tamil communities. Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in the wake of abolition. She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who sought permission for his son to be circumcised; and others, enslaved or emancipated, who challenged their status. Drawing on legal cases, petitions, and other colonial records to recover individual voices and quotidian moments, Wickramasinghe offers a meditation on the archive of slavery. She examines how color-based racial thinking gave way to more nuanced debates about identity, complicating conceptions of blackness and racialization. A deeply interdisciplinary book with a focus on recovering subaltern resistance, Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231552262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued presence of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century has practically vanished from collective memory in both the Sinhalese and Tamil communities. Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in the wake of abolition. She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who sought permission for his son to be circumcised; and others, enslaved or emancipated, who challenged their status. Drawing on legal cases, petitions, and other colonial records to recover individual voices and quotidian moments, Wickramasinghe offers a meditation on the archive of slavery. She examines how color-based racial thinking gave way to more nuanced debates about identity, complicating conceptions of blackness and racialization. A deeply interdisciplinary book with a focus on recovering subaltern resistance, Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.
Handbook to the Ferns of British India, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula
Author: Richard Henry Beddome
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Ceylon and Malaysia
Author: Leslie Gunawardene
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Gulf Crisis and South Asia
Author: Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221089780
Category : Alien labor, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Contributed articles.
Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221089780
Category : Alien labor, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Contributed articles.
Asia ...
Author: United States. Department of State. External Research Division
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Asia
Author:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A Progressive Course of Comparative Geography on the Concentric System
Author: P. H. L'Estrange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description