Routledge, 2008. — 294 p. The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces. This conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the...
University College London Press, 2018. — 354 p. 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...
University College London Press, 2018. — 354 p. 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...
University Of Chicago Press, 2010. — 261 p. — ISBN-10 0-226-05507-8. Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, religious, and educational discourse; and Christianity? And how did Sri Lankan Buddhists, collaborating with other...
SAGE Publications, 1994. — 237 p. Sumantra Bose captures the discipline, bravery, and ultimacy of the Tiger movement, exemplified by the cyanide capsules fighters carry around their necks. In a competently handled study, Sumantra Bose traces the development of Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka since the early colonial period. The book is an important addition to contemporary...
Routledge, 2020. — 278 p. This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their “greatest gift.” The book argues that resistance can be understood as a form of negotiation to lessen oppressive colonial conditions, and that the cumulative impact caused continual...
MV Publications, 2014. — 400 p. The prime objective of my involvement in this research is to present a clean picture of the immediate and fundamental causes for the launch of the Tamil Eelam freedom struggle by a chronological record of the events. Further, it is a historical necessity to make the world realise that the struggle for Tamil Eelam is not a demand for separation...
University of Arizona Press, 1979. — 377 p. Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka during the 3rd century BCE with the arrival of King Aśoka’s son, the Arahant Mahinda, from India. According to the Sri Lankan chronicles, the king of Sri Lanka at the time, Devanāṃpiya Tissa, converted to Buddhism shortly after Mahinda’s arrival. The king’s patronage of Buddhism resulted in the...
Duke University Press, 2011. — 792 p. — ISBN 978-0-8223-4982-2. The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island’s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil...
Colombo, Ceylon: A Young Socialist Publication, 1963. — 53 p. Караласингам В. Решение проблемы тамилоязычного меньшинства и революция на Цейлоне (на англ. яз.) The present position. Why have they failed? Minority oppression - product of Capitalist decay. Marxism and the oppressed peoples. Superiority of Marxist Leadership.
Cornell University Press, 1973. — 248 p. Between 1597 and 1658, a substantial part of the island Ceylon was under Portuguese rule. The Portuguese lost their possessions in Ceylon due to Dutch intervention in the Eighty Years' War. Following the Kandyan Wars, the island was united under British rule in 1815. Armed uprisings against the British took place in the 1818 Uva...
Routledge, 2012. — 194 p. This book provides a study of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create a separate state in Sri Lanka. It examines the ways in which this war should, in principle, have invoked ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principles, as well as the political, legal and practical problems involved and, ultimately, why the international community...
Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka: NESOHR Karadipokku Junction, 2007. — 141 p. Editor: North East Secretariat on Human Rights (NESOHR). Чтобы помнили: Массовые убийства тамилов на Шри-Ланке в период 1956-2001 гг., часть 1 (на англ. яз.) The State sponsored violence against the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka has a very long history. A startling aspect of this State violence is the...
Battaramulla: Niyamuwa Publications, 2014. — 165 p. Махогайя. История Джаната Вимукти Перамуна (Фронта Народного Освобождения Шри-Ланки) This volume that discusses the path of the JVP from 1965 to 1994 has been compiled from a collection of articles published by ‘Niyamuwa’ from May, 2008 under the pseudonym ‘Mahogaya’. The volume discusses the period from 1965 to 1994 in the...
Routledge, 2012. — 311 р. With the suppression of the Kandyan revolt of 1818 Ceylon ceased to have a history in the old-fashioned sense of the term, apart from the episode of the revolt of 1848. Instead there was a record which was in part administrative and in part economic—the development of the Civil Service, the advancement of Ceylonese prosperity, the conflicts between a...
Pen and Sword MIlitary, 2013. — 184 p. In 2009 the Sri Lankan government forces literally eradicated the Tamil Tiger insurgency after 26 years of civil war. This was the first time that a government had defeated an indigenous insurgency by force of arms. It was as if the British army killed thousands of IRA cadres to end the war in Northern Ireland. The story of this war is...
Kurumpasiddy—Tellipalai: The Eelakesari Ponniah Memorial Publication Society, 1959. — 111 p. Наваратнам К. Калейпулавар. Тамильский элемент в культуре Цейлона (на англ. яз.) Dravidians. Tamil Influence. Race, Language and Religion. Pre-Historic People of Ceylon. Nagas in History. Lanka and the Ramayana. Ceylon's Geographical Isolation.
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 78 с. (на англ. яз.) Оуэн Бенетт. Патриотическая борьба Фронта Народного Освобождения Шри-Ланки (Джаната Вимукти Перамуна). Sri Lankan History and the JVP. JVP Scholarship and the Diffusionist Approach to Third World Nationalism. The Non-Diffusionist Argument: V. I. Lenin, Frantz Fanon and Rohana Wijeweera. The JVP and the Class Struggle: 1965-1987....
Second Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 252 p. Sri Lanka has had a celebrated history, a long colonial past, and since independence in 1948 has passed through a series of crises and political experiments. It has had a remarkable record of voters turning out unpopular governments, often by sweeping margins. On 8 January 2015 voters again performed this feat...
Northwestern University Press, 2019. — 248 p. Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka’s War argues that the bloody war fought between the Sri Lankan state and the separatist Tamil Tigers from 1983 to 2009 should be understood as structured and animated by the forces of global capitalism. Using Aihwa Ong’s theorization of neoliberalism as...
Routledge, 2020. — 236 p. Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009) overwhelmingly represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial divide-and-rule policies, the rise of ethnonationalist lobbies, structural discrimination and majoritarian...
Routledge, 2017. — 180 p. The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic...
Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2024. — 469 p. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive survey of issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country’s contemporary polity, economy, and sociality. This book outlines aspects and influences foundational to understanding a country defined by its economic and...
Scarecrow Press, 1997. — 214 p. The island nation of Sri Lanka possesses a rich and sometimes troubled history that stretches back over 2,500 years. According to the nation's "origin myth," it was first settled by a band of 700 young men led by a Bengal prince who was banished from his homeland by his father, the king in 483 B.C. The civilization grew upon the economic prosperity...
Colombo: Sarasavi Printers, 1974. — 103 p. Шанмугатхасан Н. История Цейлона глазами марксиста (на англ. яз.) The Preface. Ancient Ceylon. The Advent of the Europeans. The First World War and after. Emergence of Neo-Colonialism. The Bandaranaike Era. An Analysis of the April 1971 Events in Ceylon. Conclusions. N. Sanmugathasan is the general secretary of the Ceylon Communist...
University Of Chicago Press, 2013. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-0-226-03822-3 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...
Lwów, Warszawa: Książnica-Atlas, 1934. — 165 s. Wstęp. Odjazd z Marsylji. Na morzu Śródziemnem. Port Said. Na morzu Czerwonem. Dżibutti. Na oceanie Indyjskim. Kolombo i jego osobliwości. Samochodem przez dżunglę. Mihintale , najstarszy klasztor buddyjski na Cejlonie. Ruiny i pamiątki w Anuradhapura. Pośród pól różowych i jezior. Polonnaruwa, zamarła w puszczy stolica. Cytadela w...
Lwów, Warszawa: Książnica-Atlas, 1934. — 165 s.
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Odjazd z Marsylji
Na morzu Śródziemnem
Port Said
Na morzu Czerwonem
Dżibutti
Na oceanie Indyjskim
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Samochodem przez dżunglę
Mihintale , najstarszy klasztor buddyjski na Cejlonie
Ruiny i pamiątki w Anuradhapura
Pośród pól różowych i jezior
Polonnaruwa, zamarła w puszczy stolica...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 315 p. In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam--better known as the Tamil Tigers--officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war. Although the war has ended, the place of minorities in Sri Lanka remains uncertain, not least because the lengthy conflict...
Brill, 2008. — 343 p. — (Brill's Indological Library 29). In the early 1880s a disastrous plant disease diminished the yields of the hitherto flourishing coffee plantation of Ceylon. Coincidentally, world market conditions for coffee were becoming increasingly unfavourable. The combination of these factors brought a swift end to coffee cultivation in the British crown colony...
Updated 2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 473 p. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minority communities, Wickramasinghe places their claims alongside the political, social and...
Routledge, 2018. — 284 p. The complex and long-drawn war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended with the defeat of the Tigers in 2009. This book provides a military history of the conflict in tracing its evolution from a battle between a ragtag guerrilla force and a mainly ceremonial army to one between an organized guerrilla...
Battaramulla: Niyamuwa Publications, 2013. — 125 p. Виджевира Рохана. Нас могут убить, но наши голоса не заглушат (на англ. яз.) The Charges Against Us. My Path to Marxism. The Impact of Sino-Soviet Dispute. The Question of Violence. Departure from the Soviet Union. Tasks of the Revolution in Ceylon. Political Education. The Right to Rebel. Origins of the April Incidents. “...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы изд-ва "Наука", 1978. — 223 с. В монографии исследуется социально-экономическая структура ланкийского общества, сложившаяся под влиянием проникновения на Шри Ланку Португалии, Голландии и Англии. Анализируются методы колониальной эксплуатации страны в XVI — начале XX в., социальные последствия господства трех различных европейских держав.
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1978. — 223 с. В монографии исследуется социально-экономическая структура ланкийского общества, сложившаяся под влиянием проникновения на Шри Ланку Португалии, Голландии и Англии. Анализируются методы колониальной эксплуатации страны в XVI — начале XX в., социальные последствия господства трех различных европейских держав.
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1976. — 369 с. В книге анализируются важнейшие этапы этнической историй, политические события и социально-экономические изменения, происходившие на острове Шри Ланка (Цейлон) с момента заселения его сингалами до начала XX в. Особое внимание уделено формированию современного этнического состава населения острова и...
Отв. ред. С.А. Арутянов. — М.: Наука, 1976. — 369 с. В книге анализируются важнейшие этапы этнической истории, политические события и социально - экономические изменения, происходившие на острове Шри Ланка (Цейлон) с момента заселения его сигналами до начала XX века. Особое внимание уделено формированию современного этнического состава населения острова и общественных...
Отв. ред. С.А. Арутянов. — М.: Наука, 1976. — 369 с. В книге анализируются важнейшие этапы этнической истории, политические события и социально - экономические изменения, происходившие на острове Шри Ланка (Цейлон) с момента заселения его сигналами до начала XX века. Особое внимание уделено формированию современного этнического состава населения острова и общественных...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1973. — 312 с. — ISBN: ЕВР 23/БН2-15032017/17. В книге освещены важнейшие политические и социально-экономические изменения, происшедшие на Цейлоне в 1795— 1965 гг. Рассматриваются английское завоевание острова Шри Ланка, методы действий колонизаторов, вскрыта особая роль становления и развития плантационного...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1973. — 312 с. — ISBN: ЕВР 23/БН2-15032017/17. В книге освещены важнейшие политические и социально-экономические изменения, происшедшие на Цейлоне в 1795— 1965 гг. Рассматриваются английское завоевание острова Шри Ланка, методы действий колонизаторов, вскрыта особая роль становления и развития плантационного...
Москва: Наука, 1973. — 312 с. В книге освещены важнейшие политические и социально-экономические изменения, происшедшие на Цейлоне в 1795-1965 гг. Рассматриваются английское завоевание острова Шри Ланка, методы действий колонизаторов, вскрыта особая роль становления и развития плантационного хозяйства и показано его влияние на социально-экономическую структуру цейлонского...
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