An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon
Author : Robert Knox
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Sri Lanka
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Author : Robert Knox
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Sri Lanka
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Author : Robert Knox
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 1681
Category : British
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Robert Knox was travelling with his father in 1659 on the latter's journey homeward from his post with the British East India Company at Fort St. George when a storm obliged their ship to put into Cottier Bay, Ceylon. The two were detained as prisoners along with 14 others, and carried into the interior of the island. Knox's father died in 1661, but Knox himself remained a prisoner at large for over 19 years, supporting himself by knitting caps, lending out corn and rice, and hawking goods about the country. Though the rajah pressed him to enter his service, Knox resisted, and finally escaped to the Dutch settlement at Arippu on the north-west of the island. Reaching England in 1680, he entrusted the manuscript of this account to Robert Hooke, and enlisted in the East India Company, for further adventures in an already adventuresome life. These engravings include depictions of agricultural techniques, two native primates, customs and costumes and an execution being carried out by an elephant.
Author : Robert Knox
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : 9788120619272
Author : A. M. Philalethes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 110804655X
This 1817 book traces the history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the classical period to 1815.
Author : Henry Parker
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9788120602083
An account of the aborigines and of part of the early civilization in Sri Lanka.
Author : K M de Silva
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9351182398
Sri Lanka is an ancient civilization, shaped and thrust into the modern globalizing world by its colonial experience. With its own unique problems, many of them historical legacies, it is a nation trying to maintain a democratic, pluralistic state structure while struggling to come to terms with separatist aspirations. This is a complex story, and there is perhaps no better person to present it in reasoned, scholarly terms than K.M. de Silva, Sri Lanka’s most distinguished and prolific historian. A History of Sri Lanka, first published in 1981, has established itself as the standard work on the subject. This fully revised edition, in light of the most recent research, brings the story right up to the early years of the twenty-first century. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Sri Lanka’s development—from a classical Buddhist society and irrigation economy, to its emergence as a tropical colony producing some of the world’s most important cash crops, such as cinnamon, tea, rubber and coconut, and finally as an Asian democracy. It is a study of the political vicissitudes of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization and the successive phases of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule. The unfortunate consequences of becoming a centre of ethnic tension and Sri Lanka’s long-standing relationship with India are also discussed. Exhaustively researched and analytical, this book is an invaluable reference source for students of ancient, colonial and post-colonial societies, ethnic conflict and democratic transitions, as well as for all those who simply want to get a feel of the rich and varied texture of Sri Lanka’s long history.
Author : Patrick Peebles
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : 9780313332050
A concise and up-to-date history of Sri Lanka, including significant attention to current conflicts.
Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1911307843
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.
Author : Senarat Paranavitana
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
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Author : Henry Trimen
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Botany
ISBN :