Ceylon at the Census of 1911, Being the Review of the Results of the Census of 1911
Author : Sir Edward Brandis Denham
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Census
ISBN :
Ceylon at the Census of 1911
Author : Ceylon. Superintendent of Census
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN :
Book Description
The Plantation Tamils of Ceylon
Author : Patrick Peebles
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780718501549
Book Description
Includes statistics.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Author : Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Book Description
Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.
Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka
Author : John D. Rogers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1000856410
Book Description
Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka (1987) examines Sri Lanka’s justice system under British rule, and concentrates on two of its aspects: the effectiveness of the administration of law and order, and the relationship between crime and social change. It argues that the colonial judicial system did penetrate rural areas, but did not operate in the way the British intended. Instead, Sri Lankans adapted the state institutions so that they functioned more effectively within indigenous culture.
Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932
Author : Lennox A Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1136262644
Book Description
Published in 1964, " Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932" is an important contribution to History.
Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia
Author : Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004162917
Book Description
Study of the African diaspora is now a dynamic field in the development of new methods and approaches to African history. This book brings together the latest research on African diaspora in Asia with case studies about India and the Indian Ocean islands.
Required Reading
Author : Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691261547
Book Description
How ordinary forms of writing—including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines—shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay rummages in the drawers of bureaucratic offices and the cupboards of publishers in search of how historical readers in colonial South Asia responded to texts ranging from licenses to manuals, how they made sense of them, and what this can tell us about their experiences living in the shadow of a vast imperial power. Taking these engagements seriously, she argues, is the first step to challenging conventional notions of what it means to read. Mukhopadhyay’s account is populated by a cast of characters that spans the ranks of colonial society, from bored soldiers to frustrated bureaucrats. These readers formed close, even intimate relationships with everyday texts. She presents four case studies: a soldier’s manual, a cache of bureaucratic documents, a collection of astrological almanacs, and a women’s literary magazine. Tracking moments in which readers refused to read, were unable to read, and read in part, she uncovers the dizzying array of material, textual, and aural practices these texts elicited. Even selectively read almanacs and impenetrable account books, she finds, were springboards for personal, world-shaping readerly relationships. Untethered from the constraints of conventional literacy, Required Reading reimagines how texts work in the world and how we understand the very idea of reading.
Religion, Space and Conflict in Sri Lanka
Author : Elizabeth J. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351400754
Book Description
Space is dynamic, political and a cause of conflict. It bears the weight of human dreams and fears. Conflict is caused not only by spatial exclusivism but also by an inclusivism that seeks harmony through subordinating the particularity of the Other to the world view of the majority. This book uses the lens of space to examine inter-religious and inter-communal conflict in colonial and post-colonial Sri Lanka, demonstrating that the colonial can shed light on the post-colonial, particularly on post-war developments, post-May 2009, when Buddhist symbolism was controversially developed in the former, largely non-Buddhist, war zones. Using the concepts of exclusivism and inclusivist subordination, the book analyses the different imaginaries or world views that were present in colonial and post-1948 Sri Lanka, with particular reference to the ethnic or religious Other, and how these were expressed in space, influenced one another and engendered conflict. The book’s use of insights from human geography, peace studies and secular iterations of the theology of religions breaks new ground, as does its narrative technique, which prioritizes voices from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the author’s fieldwork and personal observation in the twenty first. Through utilizing past and contemporary reflections on lived experience, informed by diverse religious world views, the book offers new insights into Sri Lanka’s past and present. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience in the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies; war and peace studies; security studies; religious studies; the study of religion; Buddhist Studies, mission studies, South Asian and Sri Lankan studies.
Political Violence in Sri Lanka, 1971-1987
Author : Gāmiṇi Samaranāyaka
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788121210034
Book Description
This book is the revised version of his doctoral thesis on Political Violence in the Third World: A Case Study of Sri Lanka: 1971-1987 . It is a systematic, empirical study of the left-wing insurrection by the Janatha Vimkuthi Peramuna (JVP) in April 1971 and the ethnic insurrection by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) up to the Indo Sri Lanka Accord of 1987. This is an in-depth study regarding a crucial phase of the on-going political violence in Sri Lanka. The book emphasizes that the root cause for the Political Violence in Sri Lanka is not only confined to ethnic groups but also on socio-economic basis too. The study explores the socio-economic and political background that paved the way to the origin and development of underground movements, the genesis of ideologies, the strategies and tactics adopted leading to the escalation of political violence. This book will therefore, serve as a core reading material to understand the political violence in Sri Lanka. Consequently, it will serve as a very useful authentic reference material for the students of political science and policy makers concerned in search of a sustainable consensus and compromise for setting the political violence in Sri Lanka. Contents: - List of Tables Abbreviations Foreword Preface Introduction Theories on Political Violence: An Analytical Framework Preconditions of Political Violence in Sri Lanka: The 1971 Insurrection Precondition of Tamil Guerrilla Warfare Origin, Development and Form of Guerrilla Organisations Ideologies, Strategies, and Programmes Pattern of Political Violence: 1971-1987 Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index. The Title 'Political Violence In Sri Lanka written/authored/edited by Gamini Samaranayake', published in the year 2008. The ISBN 9788121210034 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 432 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subjec
