Sri Lanka
115 books
Ethnic Politics and LTTE in Sri Lanka makes a systematic and in the depth study of aspects of Sinhalese and Tamils which took an ugly shape in the independent Sri Lanka. Historical rivalry, divided and envious approach towards each other have pushed the country in decades of ethnic war but it ultimately saved the national integrity with a lesson to accept multiplicity for the overall health of the island nation.
During his tenure as India's High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Ambassador Mehrotra found the country bitterly torn by the conflict between its Sinhala majority and sizeable Tamil minority. My Days in Sri Lanka, touches on the ancient beginnings of that conflict, briefly follows on its evolution during the last century until it reached its peak in the 1980s, and then takes us in detail through the author's own experiences there nearly two year after the 1987 ...
Archaeology and Photography' the Early Years 1868-1880 Offers an innovative account on the history of Photography in relation to field of archaeology in Sri Lanka during the colonial period. It focuses on the work of the photography Joseph Lawton and other first-generation photographers working in the country. Ismeth Raheem is an architect by profession who has brought to bear his discipline to study the history of archaeology. As a photo-historian with ...
Heritage Buildings of Sri Lanka is a documentation of the architectural heritage dating from the” medieval period (13th century) to the colonial period. The book takes the reader through an interesting collection of heritage buildings which are scattered by the main roads or on byways along mainly the Western, Southern, Sabaragamuwa and Central Provinces of Sri Lanka. They form a “living heritage” unlike the renowned built heritage of ...
This book is an overview of `Sri Lankan Painting in the 20th Century', Its principal purpose is to present an image of transect of painterly activity in the past century. The spectrum of Painterly activity in the 20th century reflects in its own unique way the articulation of tradition and modernisation in Sri Lankan society through that century. Sri Lankan Painting in the 20th century has really been looked at in a panoramic way, despite a number of writings on ...
Sri Lanka is one of the most bio-diverse countries in the world. Including residents, migrants, vagrants and others, it has on record over 450 species of birds, and thus described as a ‘birding jewel in Asia’. Aimed at stimulating an interest in Sri Lankan birds amongst a wide global audience, this nicely produced book is a splendid introduction to a wide cross section of bird species found on the island. The species have been chosen to illustrate a ...
Sri Lanka's snake fauna is diverse and ecologically associated with a range of habitats. It has the highest number of genera (47) and species (101) on record of all the reptiles in the country. Meticulously produced and lavishly illustrated through colour drawings, this book is an authentic, systematic and updated account of snakes of Sri Lanka. Besides an introductory chapter, the book has others which contain a detailed description of all the families (10) ...
Over a quarter of a century ago, civil war erupted in Sri Lanka, turning a tropical island in the Indian Ocean, renowned for its beauty, into a theatre for a protracted conflict of barbaric bloodletting, which cost up to ninety thousand inhabitants their lives. Initially the conflict was sparked by an uprising of armed groups of angry young men claiming to represent the mainstream Tamil minority in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Their struggle ...
This book vividly narrates the events of Sri Lankan ethnic feud between Sinhala majority and Tamil minority and depicts the causes of this prolonged insurgency. Ethnolinguistic differentiation is the crucial causal factor of this conflict which impelled the Tamils to take to arms and demand an independent homeland, the Tamil Eelam. Both communities share the blame equally, one for being obdurately intolerable and the other for reacting with a sense of injured ...
Island of Blood is a distillation of the experiences and insights of one of the finest journalists India has ever produced. During the eighties and nineties, when the Indian media rarely ventured into flashpoints like Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, Anita Pratap braved the odds to send in reports from the front, over and over again. War, ethnic conflict, earthquakes, cyclones and droughts, wherever there was a story to be told, she would track it down. First in India, ...
This anthology narrates the story of a sacred tree--the oldest historical tree in the world. No tree in the world has been so protected by the rulers of a country over such a long period--2300 years--as the Sri Maha Bodhi tree in the ancient city of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka. The writers in this anthology have focused on different aspects of the Bodhi tree and the views expressed by them are the conclusions reached after painstaking research.
This book explores the development of nationalism in Sri Lanka during the past century, particularly with in the dominant Sinhala Buddhist and militant Tamil movements. Tracing the ways women from diverse backgrounds have engaged with nationalism, Neloufer de Mel argues that gender is crucial to an understanding of nationlism and vice versa. Traversing both the colonial and postcolonial periods in Sri Lanka’s history, the author assesses a range of writers, ...
The present book attempts to discover the integral component of India's racial complex with its historical background. The work discusses the subject matter on scientific lines especially the racial composition of people of Indian subcontinent and their migratory pattern. Various startling myths and social customs prevalent among the aborigines and tribal groups in India and in other countries makes an interesting reading. Quite a number of pages have also been ...
Sri Lanka achieved political independence in 1948. During the fifty years that have elapsed since then, the country has made considerable strides in various spheres. Adopting a gender perspective, this volume discusses the impact on women of the social, political and economic developments which have occurred during these eventful decades. On the face of it, the country’s record on gender issues has been remarkable: women have occupied and continue to occupy ...