Download or read book The Book of Ceylon written by Henry William Cave and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kandy and the highlands written by Henry William Cave and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islanded written by Sujit Sivasundaram and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Tropical Agriculturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City as Text written by James S. Duncan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Imperial Institute written by Imperial Institute (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook of Tropical Gardening and Planting with Special Reference to Ceylon written by Hugh Fraser Macmillan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ruined Cities of Ceylon written by Henry William Cave and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Running in the Family written by Michael Ondaatje and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.
Download or read book Tropical Agriculturist written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Northern Provinces written by Henry William Cave and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.
Download or read book Exile in Colonial Asia written by Ronit Ricci and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” royals banished as political exiles; “convicts,” the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and “commemoration,” referring to the myriad ways in which the experience and its aftermath were remembered by those exiled, relatives left behind, colonial officials, and subsequent generations of descendants, devotees, historians, and politicians. Intended for a broad readership interested in the colonial period in Asia (South and Southeast Asia in particular), the volume encompasses a range of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. In addition to presenting fascinating, little-known, and varied case studies of exile in colonial Asia and Australia, the chapters collectively offer a sweeping, contextualized, comparative approach that links the narratives of diverse peoples and locales. Rather than confining research to the European colonial archives, whenever possible the authors put special emphasis on the use of indigenous primary sources hitherto little explored. Exile in Colonial Asia invites imaginative methodological innovation in exploring multiple archives and expands our theoretical frontiers in thinking about the interconnected histories of penal deportation, labor migration, political exile, colonial expansion, and individual destinies.
Download or read book Explore the Beauty of Sri Lanka written by Lina Nicander and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're planning your first trip, seek inspiration or simply have an urge to discover more about this fantastic island, Explore the Beauty of Sri Lanka - Heritage, Culture and Nature is a personal guide that takes the reader on a visual journey by rail, road and tuk-tuk through the bustling streets of Colombo, to the hills and valleys of the tea region. Filled with interesting facts, our guide, Lina Nicander, offers first-hand, local knowledge and insider insight for travelling around the capital and beyond to north and south of Colombo. Beautiful images of magnificent beaches, breathtaking nature and the finest colonial hotels complement useful addresses and travel tips for easy planning. From the country's unique mix of architecture, including the celebrated tropical modernist style of Geoffrey Bawa, to historic and cultural highlights, Explore the Beauty of Sri Lanka - Heritage, Culture and Nature has everything you need to discover and enjoy this beautiful land. The book is divided into four parts: Colombo explores the capital, with colonial walks and a look at the island's unique architecture, including Geoffrey Bawa's tropical modernism. Then on to Negombo, to its vibrant fish market and fantastic beaches. North of Colombo takes you through the Highlands by train to the tea region, as well as the UNESCO sites Kandy and Sigiriya Rock before visiting an elephant orphanage. South of Colombo looks at the unique mix of Portuguese, Dutch and British influences in Galle Fort before travelling on to south coast beaches, the mangrove swamps and Yala National Park. The final section offers travel tips, such as getting around the Island and visa and travel information, as well as useful addresses and links for where to stay and what to do when planning your trip.
Download or read book Banishment and Belonging written by Ronit Ricci and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking exploration of exile and diaspora as they relate to place, language, religious tradition, literature and the imagination.
Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book 1994 95 written by B. Hunter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 1747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the 131st edition of The Statesman's Year-Book, has been throughly revised and updated to present a political, economic and social record of the nations of the world in a period of continuing changes. It includes locator maps for each country for the first time.
Download or read book The Tea Book written by Linda Gaylard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does tea come from? With DK's The Tea Book, learn where in the world tea is cultivated and how to drink each variety at its best, with steeping notes and step-by-step recipes. Visit tea plantations from India to Kenya, recreate a Japanese tea ceremony, discover the benefits of green tea, or learn how to make the increasingly popular Chai tea. Exploring the spectrum of herbal, plant, and fruit infusions, as well as tea leaves, this is a comprehensive guide for all tea lovers.
