A View of the Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial Interests of Ceylon
Author: Anthony Bertolacci
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Published: 1817
Total Pages: 612
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Author: Anthony Bertolacci
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Published: 1817
Total Pages: 612
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Published: 1817
Total Pages: 610
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony Bertolacci
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 577
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 788
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 1400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. Willis Dixon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0429687419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1939, this volume describes many of the more colourful episodes in the career of Sir Thomas Maitland, while, in its account of his role as governor, it makes a valuable contribution to the study of early colonial history. Maitland was one of the most important figures in the formative period of the colonial administrative service during and immediately after the Napoleonic Wars. After a distinguished military career, he had two long periods of office in Ceylon, from 1805 to 1811, and from 1813 until his death in 1824 he acted as Governor of Malta and then of the Ionian Islands, where he made a lasting reputation for his vigour and honesty, as well as for his autocratic methods of administration which brought him to be popularly regarded as a tyrant.
Author: Carl Muller
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2000-10-14
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9351181588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColombo is in the throes of an explosion. Its face changes continuously, its vices are legion, its future as yet obscure and its paths speak of sunlight as well as of shadow.-' Carl Muller begins his quasi-fictional portrait of this beautiful, war-torn city by describing the great battles fought over it by European colonizers-. In AD 1505, a Portuguese fleet blown off-course took shelter in Galle, overthrew the local kings, fortified Colombo and decided to stay. The Dutch came along, ousted the Portuguese, made Colombo their capital and ruled till the British arrived and sent them packing. Muller intersperses the tales of the past into descriptions of the battles that are being fought in Colombo today"political battles in which vested interests play a major role as well as battles fought on the individual level in the struggle to survive: young women and children turning to prostitution to earn an extra buck, people begging in the streets to make ends meet, unemployed young men turning to crime in frustration, students demonstrating against atrocities, lovers pining for nightfall in order to push away loneliness if only for a few moments... Written in Muller's lucid style, Colombo: A Novel is a chronicle of a city's trials and triumphs.
Author: Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9004165088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism.
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 802
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