Download or read book Colonial Mixed Blood written by Allan Russell Juriansz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLONIAL MIXED BLOOD The navies built by the Arabs and King Solomon plied the oceans long ago. The Portuguese, Dutch, and British followed suit, and eventually the oceans were mastered. The colonial age came into being and brought with it increased movements of people and the mixing of genes. In Colonial Mixed Blood, author Allan Russell Juriansz, who was born in Sri Lanka, provides an account of this occurrence with reference to the Portuguese, Dutch, and British who colonized Sri Lanka for the period of the past five hundred years. The story begins in Riga, Latvia, in the late 1400s and centres on the Ondatjes and the Juriansz clan, their love story, their immersion in Christianity, and their struggles to survive the forces of colonialism and find happiness. A blend of history and fiction, Colonial Mixed Blood provides a background of the religious forces at work during this time in Europe and outlines the genealogy and life experiences of Juriansz’s family as part of the colonial activity of the Dutch East India Company in Sri Lanka. They inherited an adventurous spirit from their first Dutch ancestors, and this spirit inspired their diaspora. But it was one hundred and fifty years of intense British influence that transformed them into loyal British subjects.
Download or read book People Inbetween The Burghers and the middle class in the transformations within Sri Lanka 1790s 1960s written by Michael Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1.
Download or read book The Burghers of Ceylon written by Andrew Elsby and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burghers of Ceylon traces the origins and history of the mixed-race populations of imperial Ceylon. It explains how, and why, those populations emerged, how they developed, how they were distinguished - and how they distinguished themselves - from the Europeans and from the native populations. It explores the components of burgher identity. The author also provides answers to the following questions. How reliable is the evidence of the Dutch Burgher Union's genealogies? How prevalent is racial misrepresentation, and what were the motives behind it? How were the mixed-race populations treated by the European colonial powers? What happened to those mixed-race populations when colonial rule ended in 1948?
Download or read book The Burghers written by J. B. Müller and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on the Burghers (Sri Lankan people).
Download or read book The Jam Fruit Tree written by Carl Muller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gratiean Memorial Prize for the best work in English Literature by a Sri Lankan for 1993 Hilarious, affectionate, candid and moving, this is the story of the Burghers of Sri Lanka... Who are the Burghers? Descended from the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British and other foreigners who arrived in the island-nation of Sri Lanka (and 'mingled' with the local inhabitants), the Burghers often stand out because of their curiously mixed features—grey eyes in an otherwise Dravid face, for instance.... A handsome and guileless people, the Burghers have always lived it up, forever willing to 'put a party'. Carl Muller, a Burgher himself, writes in this quasi-fictional, engaging biography of the lives of his people; they emerge, at the end of his story, as a race of fun-loving, hardy people, much like the jam fruit tree which simply refuses to be contained or destroyed.
Download or read book The Burghers of Ceylon Worldwide written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Joseph was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1763. He married Anna Cathrina riphagen in 1802 in Colombo, Ceylon. They had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Sri Lanka and Australia.
Download or read book The Burghers of Ceylon written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yakada Yaka written by Carl Muller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yakada Yaka is the second part of the Burgher trilogy that began with The Jam Fruit Tree When the conquering British roll out the first railway steam-driven locomotive in Sri Lanka, it causes quite a stir. The smoke-spewing, banshee-wailing, fearsome black thing hisses like a thousand cobras... and the villagers declare that this Thing is an Iron Demon—a yakada yaka. The Burghers who drive these Iron Demons have a penchant for challenging authority and courting trouble, sometimes just to liven things up in the railway outposts... and so it is that Sonnaboy and Meerwald chase a large group of villagers all across Anuradhapura, mother-naked but not much bothered by it, Ben Godlieb conjures up a corpse in his cowcatcher, Dickie Byrd single-handedly demolishes a Pentecostal Mission and is hailed as the messiah of the Railway fraternity, and Basil Van der Smaght filches a human heart and feeds it to the Nawalapitiya railway staff ...and to cap it all, Sonnaboy takes French Leave to act in The Bridge on the River Kwai! '(Muller) tells his tale with a gentle humour often bordering on tenderness, but couched in the vigorous rugged localese. Almost immediately we find ourselves empathizing with Muller's roistering band that sins and prays with equal zest.' —Business Standard '... The Burghers ...believed in living life to the hilt. Every situation occasioned wild revels, and there was nothing that could not be solved through a brawl.' —India Today.
Download or read book Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon written by Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Taste of Sugar Spice written by Deloraine Brohier and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Once Upon A Tender Time written by Carl Muller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once Upon a Tender Time, a poignant tale of childhood, is the concluding part of Carl Muller's Burgher trilogy. The Burghers of Sri Lanka, hardy and fun-loving, produce children by the dozen-but often forget them. Carloboy Prins von Bloss and his companions are usually considered a pain in the neck by the adults they encounter as they go about the serious business of discovering the world and, primarily, the facts of life. Romps in the backyard, trysts in deserted houses and long bicycle rides to discover true love are commonplace. Also frequent are thrashings and canings as adults try to do.
Download or read book Proud Prejudiced written by Rodney Ferdinands and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nobodies to Somebodies written by Kumari Jayawardena and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobodies to Somebodies examines the origins and growth of the bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka during British rule - an important but neglected aspect of the country's modern history. It traces its evolution from a 'feudal' society and mercantilist economy, to the age of plantations. In the course of this evolution local merchants accumulated capital through arrack and toll renting, subsequently diversifying into plantation cultivation and graphite mining, thereby making dents in the old caste-based division of labour.This study assigns primacy to class over caste, and details the rise of the new-rich 'Nobodies' of many different castes, ethnicities and religions into the ranks of the 'Somebodies'. It discusses the links between capital accumulation, religious revivalism, ethnic identity and political movements, and the marriage 'cartels' which led to further concentration of wealth.The book focuses on the rentier nature of the bourgeoisie and how they adopted Western culture and lifestyles and were basically collaborative with the colonial rulers. It highlights the constraints on further capitalist development, the obsession of the bourgeoisie with land acquisition and social status, and its consciousness as a class, especially on issues of political reform.
Download or read book Ceylon Under the British written by G.C. Mendis and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period, 1796-1948.
Download or read book Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka 1780 1815 written by Alicia Schrikker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 1780 - 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.
Download or read book Dressing the Colonised Body written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Explores Popular, Political And Symbolic Meanings Assigned To Dress In A Variety Of Colonial Contexts In Sri Lanka; Thus It Focuses On The Politics Of Nationalism And Identity Under Late Colonialism. Proceeding From The Understanding That Self-Representation Is At Its Peak At The Moment Of Political Independence, The Author Examines The Lineages That Exist Between That Moment In Sri Lanka And The Colonial Past, As Also The Meaning Of The Commemorations That Took Place On Independence Day.
Download or read book Children Of The Lion written by Muller and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictionalized account of the history of Sri Lanka from the earliest times; includes the spread and development of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
