The Sri Lanka Reader [electronic resource] : History, Culture, Politics

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holt, John Clifford.

Contributor:

Kirk, Robin.

Starn, Orin.

Series:

The world readers

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (791 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lanka s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. From Ancient to Early Modern; Buddhist Visions of a Primordial Past; A Tamil Hindu Vijaya: Yalpana Vaipava Malai; The Saga of Dutugemunu; Sirisamghabodhi and the Ideals of Buddhist Kingship; Anuradhapura: Fifth-Century Observations by a Chinese Buddhist Monk; Path of Purification; A Hydraulic Civilization; Sigiri Graffiti; Set in Stone; Anuradhapura: A Photographic Essay; Tamil Identity in Ancient Sri Lanka; The Indigenous Veddhas; Tamilnadus in Rajarata; Promulgations of a Polonnaruva King

Buddhist Sculpture at Polonnaruva: A Photographic EssayThe Abdication of King Parakramabahu II; Dambadeni Asna; Alakeshvara Yuddhaya; The Observations of Ibn Battuta; Saelalihini Sandesaya (The Starling's Message); II. The Colonial Encounter; Sri Lanka: National Identity and the Impact of Colonialism; The Portuguese: An Introduction; An Early Observer; Visions from the Mid-Sixteenth Century: The Economist, the Viceroy, and the Missionary; The Spin Doctors at Work: The Island as "New Portugal"; Kandy in the 1630s: Through the Eyes of a Soldier-Poet and a Soldier-Ethnographer

The Final DreamersThe Catholics' Last Sigh: Oratorian Missionaries in Eighteenth-Century Kandy; The Dutch: An Introduction; A Dutch Prelude; Jaffna and Kandy through Eyes of a Dutch Reformed; The Price of Good Cinnamon; How the Dutch Ruled; Dutch Policy towards Buddhism in Sri Lanka; The British: An Introduction; A British Description of Colombo, 1807; The Final Tragedy of the Kandyan Kingdom; The Rebellion of 1818 and Consolidation of British Rule; The 1848 Rebellion; Leonard Woolf's Ceylon; The Establishment of the Tea Industry in Ceylon; Kandyan Culture in the Colonial Era: An Introduction

Vimaladharmasurya: The First Kandyan KingConcerning Their Religions . . .; Poetry and Proclamations in the Kandyan Kingdom; An Open Letter to the Kandyan Chiefs; Colonial Postscript: The Other Eden; III Emerging Identities; Buddhist Identities: An Introduction; Old Diary Leaves; The Western Invasion and the Decline of Buddhism; Ape Gama (Our Village); Ten-Precept Mothers in the Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka; Sarvodaya in a Buddhist Society; Politically Engaged Militant Monks; Politics of the Jathika Hela Urumaya: Buddhism and Ethnicity

A Buddha Now and Then: Images of a Sri Lankan Culture HeroLosing the Way Home; Muslim Identities: An Introduction; Origins of the Sri Lankan Muslims and Varieties of the Muslim Identity; The Ethnology of the "Moors" of Ceylon; A Criticism of Mr. Ramanathan's "Ethnology of the Moors of Ceylon,"; Who Are the Moors of Ceylon?; The Bawas of Ceylon; The Fight for the Fez; The Purdah's Lament; Sri Lankan Malays; Tamil Identities: An Introduction; Language, Poetry, Culture, and Tamil Nationalism; The Dance of the Turkey Cock-The Jaffna Boycott of 1931

Language and the Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

1-283-25227-9

9786613252272

0-8223-9405-7

OCLC:

823853599