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A History of Sri Lanka
Language: en
Pages: 666
Authors: K M de Silva
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-25 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Sri Lanka is an ancient civilization, shaped and thrust into the modern globalizing world by its colonial experience. With its own unique problems, many of them
The History of Sri Lanka
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Patrick Peebles
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-08-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Sri Lanka—an island nation located in the Indian Ocean— has a population of approximately 19 million. Despite its diminuative size, however, Sri Lanka has 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
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Nira Wickramasinghe
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
Sri Lanka
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Jonathan Spencer
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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In the past decade, Sri Lanka has been engulfed by political tragedy as successive governments have failed to settle the grievances of the Tamil minority in a w