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Silva K M De

A history of Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka Vijitha Yapa Publications 2014 - 782p xvi

Contents
Colonisers and settlers
an outline
an Irrigation
a Feudal Polity
a Buddhist
Indian summer
The fragmentation of the Sri Lanka Polity
The crisis of the sixteenth century
A plantation economy 18501910
Peasant agriculture 18501910
the triumph
Education and social change in the late nineteenth
Religion and the rise of nationalism c 18701900
Politics and constitutional reform in the late
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Elite conflict and the Ceylon National Congress
Portuguese rule in the maritime regions
The struggle for mastery in Sri Lanka c 16801766
Trade and agriculture under the V O C
the last phase 17671796
The impact of Dutch rule
Religion literature and the arts in the Kandyan
The English East India Company in Sri Lanka
The fall of the Kandyan kingdom
Economic and social change in the early nineteenth
Social and economic change in the early twentieth
The Donoughmore Commission and The first phase
Social and economic change in the Donoughmore era
Literature and the arts the nineteenth and twentieth
the U N P 19471956
Sri Lanka in the 1960s
democracy at bay
Copyright

ISBN: 9780144000159

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. History - Sri Lanka

Dewey Class. No.: 954.930000 / SIL