A Bibliography of Ceylon
Author: H. A. I. Goonetileke
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 628
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Author: H. A. I. Goonetileke
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 628
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edwin Munsell Bliss
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Trimen
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G.C. Mendis
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9788120619302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the period, 1796-1948.
Author: Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1782382437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines – in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The ‘metallic modern’ of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic Modern describes the modern as it was lived and experienced by non-elite groups – tailors, seamstresses, shopkeepers, workers – and suggests that their idea of the modern was nurtured by a changing material world.
Author: William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.)
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 160
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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Total Pages: 430
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H. A. I. Goonetileke
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-08-05
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 022603836X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow 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.