A History of Sri Lanka |
Contents
Colonisers and settlers | 3 |
political history from Saddhātissa to | 17 |
an Irrigation | 27 |
a Feudal Polity | 35 |
a Buddhist | 45 |
Indian summer | 60 |
The fragmentation of the Sri Lanka Polity | 81 |
The crisis of the sixteenth century | 97 |
A plantation economy 18501910 | 282 |
Peasant agriculture 18501910 | 297 |
the triumph | 315 |
Education and social change in the late nineteenth | 327 |
Religion and the rise of nationalism c 18701900 | 339 |
Politics and constitutional reform in the late | 356 |
Political change in the early twentieth century | 373 |
Elite conflict and the Ceylon National Congress | 389 |
Portuguese rule in the maritime regions | 129 |
The struggle for mastery in Sri Lanka c 16801766 | 143 |
Trade and agriculture under the V O C | 161 |
the last phase 17671796 | 178 |
The impact of Dutch rule | 195 |
Religion literature and the arts in the Kandyan | 201 |
The English East India Company in Sri Lanka | 210 |
The fall of the Kandyan kingdom | 220 |
Economic and social change in the early nineteenth | 239 |
Social and economic change in the early twentieth | 402 |
The Donoughmore Commission and | 417 |
the first phase | 430 |
Social and economic change in the Donoughmore era | 462 |
Literature and the arts the nineteenth and twentieth | 479 |
the U N P 19471956 | 489 |
Sri Lanka in the 1960s | 525 |
democracy at bay | 540 |
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