Palm Leaf Manuscripts of Sri Lanka
Author : Sirancee Gunawardana
Publisher : S.N. Publishing Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
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Author : Sirancee Gunawardana
Publisher : S.N. Publishing Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
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Publisher :
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Codicology
ISBN : 9789558383421
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 200?
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ISBN : 9789550093151
Author : Jinadasa Liyanaratne
Publisher :
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Buddhism
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Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 022603836X
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.
Author : John Guy
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art
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Author : Jātika Kautukāgāra Pustakālaya (Sri Lanka)
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Buddhist literature
ISBN : 9789555780261
Author : Jörg Quenzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110384825
Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.
Author : Anuk Arudpragasam
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 059323071X
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A young man journeys into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. “A novel of tragic power and uncommon beauty.”—Anthony Marra “One of the most individual minds of their generation.”—Financial Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND NPR A Passage North begins with a message from out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother’s caretaker, Rani, has died under unexpected circumstances—found at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an impassioned yet aloof activist Krishnan fell in love with years before while living in Delhi, stirring old memories and desires from a world he left behind. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for Rani’s funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the innermost reaches of a country. At once a powerful meditation on absence and longing, as well as an unsparing account of the legacy of Sri Lanka’s thirty-year civil war, this procession to a pyre “at the end of the earth” lays bare the imprints of an island’s past, the unattainable distances between who we are and what we seek. Written with precision and grace, Anuk Arudpragasam’s masterful novel is an attempt to come to terms with life in the wake of devastation, and a poignant memorial for those lost and those still living.
Author : Camillo Alessio Formigatti
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781851245314
This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, the book presents episodes from the adventures of young Krishna, the life of Prince Rāma and Hindu foundational myths, the life of the Buddha, as well as Buddhist and Jaina birth stories.Pairing key excerpts from these wonderful Sanskrit texts with exquisite illustrations from the Bodleian Library's rich manuscript collections, the book includes images of birch-bark and palm-leaf manuscripts, vibrant Mughal miniatures, early printed books, sculptures, watercolour paintings and even early photograph albums.Each extract is presented in both English translation and Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script, and is accompanied by a commentary on the literature and related books and artworks. The collection is organised by geographical region and includes sections on the Himalayas, North India, Central and South India, Sri Lanka and South East Asia, Tibet, Inner and East Asia, and the Middle East and Europe.This is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in Sanskrit literature and the manuscript art of South Asia - and beyond.