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Category : Inscriptions, Sinhalese
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Epigraphia Zeylanica: 1940-1945
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Category : Inscriptions, Sinhalese
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Category : Inscriptions, Sinhalese
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Epigraphia Zeylanica: 1912-27
Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Epigraphia Zeylanica: Auxiliary Part
Author: S. Paranavitana
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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Trade and Statecraft in the Ages of Colas
Author: Kenneth R. Hall
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170171201
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170171201
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Epigraphia Zeylanica
Author: Don M. de Z. Wickremasinghe
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Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Includes transliterated text of the inscriptions.
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Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Includes transliterated text of the inscriptions.
Language, Religion, and Ethnic Assertiveness
Author: Kē. En. Ō Dharmadāsa
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472102884
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
For nearly four decades, Sri Lanka has been the scene of an escalating ethnic conflict between the majority Sinhalese and the Tamils, who form the largest minority. Language, Religion, and Ethnic Assertiveness traces the development of Sinhalese nationalism by paying particular attention to the Sinhala language and how it relates to Sinhalese national identity. After Sri Lanka became independent from Great Britain in 1948, an official national language had to be chosen - either "Sinhala only" or "parity of status for Sinhala and Tamil". The victory of the "Sinhala only" proposition that won in the general election of 1956 started the antagonism between the Sinhalese and the Tamils that persists to this day. Using hitherto untapped primary sources, K. N. O. Dharmadasa delineates some of the peculiar features of the linkage between state, religion, and ethnicity in traditional Sinhalese society, providing insight into a tragic conflict that has a long and turbulent history. The book has much to offer historians, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists of language and religion, as well as students and scholars of South Asia, postcolonialism, ethnicity, cultural identity, and conflict.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472102884
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
For nearly four decades, Sri Lanka has been the scene of an escalating ethnic conflict between the majority Sinhalese and the Tamils, who form the largest minority. Language, Religion, and Ethnic Assertiveness traces the development of Sinhalese nationalism by paying particular attention to the Sinhala language and how it relates to Sinhalese national identity. After Sri Lanka became independent from Great Britain in 1948, an official national language had to be chosen - either "Sinhala only" or "parity of status for Sinhala and Tamil". The victory of the "Sinhala only" proposition that won in the general election of 1956 started the antagonism between the Sinhalese and the Tamils that persists to this day. Using hitherto untapped primary sources, K. N. O. Dharmadasa delineates some of the peculiar features of the linkage between state, religion, and ethnicity in traditional Sinhalese society, providing insight into a tragic conflict that has a long and turbulent history. The book has much to offer historians, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists of language and religion, as well as students and scholars of South Asia, postcolonialism, ethnicity, cultural identity, and conflict.
A Working List of the Scientific Periodical Publications Retained in the Rafles Museum and Library, Singapore
Author: Raffles Museum and Library
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Paranavitana Felicitation Volume on Art & Architecture and Oriential Studies
Author: N. A. Jayawickrama
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Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
Author: Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911307843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911307843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
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.