The Sri Lanka reader : history, culture, politics

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From ancient to early modern

The colonial encounter

Emerging identities

Independence, insurrections, and social change

Political epilogue. Buddhist visions of a primordial past / Anonymous, comp. Mahanama Thera

A Tamil Hindu Vijaya: Yalpana Vaipava Malai / Anonymous

The saga of Dutugemunu / Devarakkhita Jayabahu Dharmakirti

Sirisamghabodhi and the ideals of Buddhist kingship / Anonymous, com. Mahanama Thera

Anuradhapura: fifth-century observations by a Chinese Buddhist monk / Fa-Hien

Path of purification / Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa

A hydraulic civilization / Chandra Richard de Silva

Sigiri graffiti / Anonymous

Set in stone / Mahinda IV and Anonymous

Anuradhapura: a photographic essay / John Clifford Holt

Tamil identity in ancient Sri Lanka / K. Indrapala

The indigenous Veddhas / Robert Knox

Tamilnadus in Rajarata / Charles Hoole

Promulgations of a Polonnaruva king / Parakramabahu I

Buddhist sculpture at Polonnaruva: a photographic essay / John Clifford Holt

The abdication of King Parakramabahu II / Mayurapada Buddhaputra

Dambadeni Asna / Anonymous

Alakeshvara Yuddhaya / Anonymous

The observations of Ibn Battuta / Ibn Battuta

Saelalihini sandesaya (The starling's message) / Sri Rahula

Sri Lanka: national identity and the impact of colonialism / K.M. de Silva

The Portuguese: an introduction / Jorge Flores

An early observer / Duarte Barbosa

Visions from the mid-sixteenth century: the economist, the viceroy, and the missionary / António Pessoa, Dom Afonso de Noronha, and Fr. Manuel de Morais

The spin doctors at work: the island as "New Portugal" / Francisco Rodrigues Silveira and Jorge Pinto de Azevedo

Kandy in the 1630s: through the eyes of a soldier-poet and a soldier-ethnographer / Anonymous and Constantino de Sá de Miranda

The final dreamers / João Ribeiro and Fernão de Queiroz

The Catholics' last sigh: Oratorian missionaries in eighteenth-century Kandy / M. da Costa Nunes

The Dutch: an introduction

A Dutch prelude / Sebald de Weert

Jaffna and Kandy through eyes of a Dutch Reformed predikant / Philip Baldaeus

The price of good cinnamon / Sinnappah Arasaratnam

How the Dutch ruled / Ryckloff Van Goens

Dutch policy towards Buddhism in Sri Lanka / K.W. Goonewardena

The British: an introduction

A British description of Colombo, 1807 / James Cordiner

The final tragedy of the Kandyan kingdom / John Davy

The rebellion of 1818 and consolidation of British rule / Jonathan Forbes

The 1848 rebellion / Governor Torrington

Leonard Woolf's Ceylon / Leonard Woolf

The establishment of the tea industry in Ceylon / L.A. Wickremeratne

Kanyan culture in the colonial era: an introduction

Vimaladharmasurya: the first Kanyan king / Anonymous

Concerning their religions ... / Robert Knox

Poetry and proclamations in the Kandyan kingdom / Anonymous and Kirti Sri Rajasimha

An open letter to the Kandyan chiefs / Ananda Coomaraswamy

Colonial postscript: the other Eden / Richard de Zoysa

Buddhist identities: an introduction

Old diary leaves / Henry Steele Olcott

The Western invasion and the decline of Buddhism / Anagarika Dharmapala

Ape gama (Our village) / Martin Wickramasinghe

Ten-precept mothers in the Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka / Justine Semmens

Sarvodaya in a Buddhist society / A.T. Ariyaratne

Politically engaged militant monks / Walpola Rahula

Politics of the Jathika Hela Urumaya: Buddhism and ethnicity / Mahinda Deegalle

A Buddha now and then: images of a Sri Lankan culture hero / John Clifford Holt

Losing the way home / Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe

Muslim identities: an introduction

Origins of the Sri Lankan Muslims and varieties of the Muslim identity / Dennis McGilvray and Mirak Raheem

The ethnology of the "Moors" of Ceylon / P. Ramanathan

A criticism of Mr. Ramanathan's "Ethnology of the Moors of Ceylon" / I.L.M. Abdul Azeez

Who are the Moors of Ceylon? / S.L. Mohamed

The Bawas of Ceylon / R.L. Spittel

The fight for the fez / M.M. Thawfeeq

The Purdah's lament / M.L.M. Mansoor

Sri Lankan Malays / M.M.M. Mahroof

Tamil identities: an introduction

Language, poetry, culture, and Tamil nationalism / A. Jeyaratnam Wilson

The dance of the turkey cock: the Jaffna boycott of 1931 / Jane Russell

Language and the rise of Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka / Robert N. Kearney

The militarisation of Tamil youth / A. Jeyaratnam Wilson

Womanhood and the Tamil refugee / Joke Schrijvers

Translating remembering / Benjamin Schonthal

Nallur / Jean Arasanayagam

Christians and burghers: an introduction

Christians in a Buddhist majority / Paul Caspersz, S.J

On the meaning of "parangi" and "burgher": symbolic discourse of subordination / Michael Roberts, Ismeth Raheem, and Percy Colin-Thomé

Emergent perspectives in modern art: the '43 group- formation of a Sri Lankan avant-garde / Larry D. Lutchmansingh

Sri Lanka in 1948 / K.M. de Silva

The Bandaranaike legend / James Manor

After forty-five years / Howard Wriggins

The Ceylon insurrection of 1971 / Robert N. Kearney and Janice Jiggins

The Colombo riots of 1983 / S.J. Tambiah

"In the month of July" and "Voyagers" / Jean Arasanayagam

Patriotic TV / K. Jayatilake

Search my mind / Jean Arasanayagam

The great divide / Antoinette Ferdinand

A land divided / Jean Arasanayagam

Neither Sinhala nor Tamil: on being a South Asian in Sri Lanka / Sree Padma

Female labor migration from Sri Lanka to the Middle East / Michele Ruth Gamburd

Juki girls: gender, globalization, and the stigma of garment factory work / Caitrin Lynch

A place with no room / Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe

The wave / Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe

And then they came for me / Lasantha Wickrematunga

Checkmate! / The Island

Our Holocaust / The Tamil Guardian

Moderation the only way / Lilani Jayatilaka

Kingship-in-the-making / Doug Saunders