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Sri Lanka in the Modern Age
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Nira Wickramasinghe
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On the ethnic relations and politics in post 1978 Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Since the late 1970s civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis; conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars
Metallic Modern
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Pages: 191
Authors: Nira Wickramasinghe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of fore
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Authors: Nira Wickramasinghe
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-17 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a
Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Zoltán Biedermann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-07 - Publisher: UCL Press

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The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdiscipli