19th Century Newspaper Engravings Of Ceylon Sri Lanka
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19th Century Newspaper Engravings Of Ceylon Sri Lanka
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Author : Rajpal Kumar De Silva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
19th Century Newspaper Engravings Of Ceylon Sri Lanka written by Rajpal Kumar De Silva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Under Empire
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Author : Michael Francis Laffan
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Under Empire written by Michael Francis Laffan and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with History categories.
Winner, 2023 New South Wales Premier's History Awards, General History Prize An imam banished from eastern Indonesia to the Cape of Good Hope in 1780 builds a new Muslim community with a mix of fellow exiles, enslaved people, and even the men tasked with supervising his detention. Nineteenth-century colonial chroniclers invent the legend of the “loyal Malay” warrior, whose anger can be tamed through the “mildness” of British rule. A Tunisian-born teacher who arrived in Java from Istanbul in the early twentieth century becomes an enterprising Arabic-language journalist caught between competing nationalisms. Telling these stories and many more, Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and future nation-states around the Indian Ocean world. Under Empire traces interlinked lives and journeys, examining engagements with Western, Islamic, and pan-Asian imperial formations to consider the possibilities for Muslims in an imperial age. It ranges from the dying era of the trading companies in the late eighteenth century through the period of Dutch and British colonial rule up to the rise of nationalist and cosmopolitan movements for social reform in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Laffan emphasizes how Indian Ocean Muslims by turns asserted loyalty to colonial states in pursuit of a measure of religious freedom or looked to the Ottoman Empire or Egypt in search of spiritual unity. Bringing the history of Southeast Asian Islam to African and South Asian shores, Under Empire is an expansive and inventive account of Muslim communal belonging on the world stage.
Travel Art And Collecting In South Asia
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Author : Natasha Eaton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-14
Travel Art And Collecting In South Asia written by Natasha Eaton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-14 with Art categories.
Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia. If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one that considers the relationship between art and labour, including pearlescence and pearl fishing in Sri Lanka, and the iconoclastic/fetish debates and forms of collecting amongst missionaries. Eaton explores these themes alongside the genealogies and modernities of white(ness) in contemporary curating and amateur female practice, and how the museobus or museum as a unique object has informed the work of contemporary artist group Raqs Media Collective. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Asian history, and imperial and colonial history.
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781 1997
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Author : Piers Brendon
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-10-28
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781 1997 written by Piers Brendon and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-28 with History categories.
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.
The Indo Lankans Their 200 Year Saga
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Author : S. Muthiah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Indo Lankans Their 200 Year Saga written by S. Muthiah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with East Indians categories.
Mountain At A Center Of The World
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Author : Alexander McKinley
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-27
Mountain At A Center Of The World written by Alexander McKinley and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with Religion categories.
At the pilgrimage site of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, a footprint is embedded atop the mountain summit. Buddhists hold that it was left by the Buddha, Hindus say Lord Siva, and Muslims and Christians identify it with Adam, the first man. The Sri Lankan state, for its part, often uses the Peak as a prop to convey a harmonious image of religious pluralism, despite increasing Buddhist hegemony. How should the diversity of this place be understood historically and managed practically? Considering the varied heritage of this sacred site, Alexander McKinley develops a new account of pluralism based in political ecology, representing the full array of actors and issues on the mountain. From its diverse people to rare species to deep geology, the Peak exemplifies a planetary pluralism that recognizes a multiplicity of beings while accepting competition and disorder. Taking a place-based approach, McKinley casts the mountain as an actor, exploring how its rocks, forests, and waters promote pilgrimage, inspire storytelling, and make ethical demands on human communities. Combining history and ethnography while furnishing original translations of sources from Pali, Sinhala, and Tamil, this multidisciplinary and stylistically innovative book shows how religious traditions share literal common ground in their reverence for the mountain.
Knox S Words
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Author : Richard Boyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Knox S Words written by Richard Boyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with English language categories.
Dinah Jefferies 3 Book Collection
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Author : Dinah Jefferies
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Dinah Jefferies 3 Book Collection written by Dinah Jefferies and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with Fiction categories.
*Bestselling author Dinah Jefferies' first three novels now together in one e-book* The Separation Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where is her husband Alec? Her young daughters, Emma and Fleur? Lydia's search takes her on a hazardous journey through war-torn jungle. Forced to turn to Jack Harding, a man she'd vowed to leave in her past, she sacrifices everything to be reunited with her family. The Tea Planter's Wife Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon full of optimism, eager to join her new husband. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in London. Distant and brooding, Laurence spends long days wrapped up in his work, leaving his young bride to explore the plantation alone. It's a place filled with clues to the past - locked doors, a yellowed wedding dress in a dusty trunk, an overgrown grave hidden in the grounds, far too small for an adult... The Silk Merchant's Daughter 1952, French Indochina. Since her mother's death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi, an area teeming with militant rebels. Tran, a notorious Vietnamese insurgent, seems to offer the perfect escape from her troubles, while Mark, a charming American trader, is the man she's always dreamed of. But who can she trust in this world where no one is what they seem? 'Dinah Jefferies is a gifted writer and storyteller' Deborah Rodriguez 'Dinah Jefferies has a remarkable gift for conjuring up another time and place with lush descriptions, full of power and intensity' Kate Furnivall
Bibliography Of Imperial Colonial And Commonwealth History Since 1600
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Author : Andrew N. Porter
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2002
Bibliography Of Imperial Colonial And Commonwealth History Since 1600 written by Andrew N. Porter and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Britain's overseas history has never been well supplied with comprehensive bibliographical aids, and, despite extensive public interest in the subject, the position has steadily worsened. Following the recent Oxford History of the British Empire, this volume is therefore designed to provide a general source of reference and bibliographical guidance, at once wide-ranging, up-to-date, and accessible.
The Tea Planter S Wife
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Author : Dinah Jefferies
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-09-03
The Tea Planter S Wife written by Dinah Jefferies and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with Fiction categories.
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A haunting, tender portrait of a woman forced to choose between her duty as a wife and her instinct as a mother... Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon, Sri Lanka full of optimism, eager to join her new husband. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in London. Distant and brooding, Laurence spends long days wrapped up in his work, leaving his young bride to explore alone. It's a place filled with clues to the past - locked doors, a yellowed wedding dress in a dusty trunk, an overgrown grave, far too small for an adult... Gwen soon falls pregnant and her husband is overjoyed, but she has little time to celebrate. In the delivery room the new mother is faced with a terrible choice. When the time comes, how will her husband ever understand what she has done? 'A truly absorbing book' Reader Review 'So many twists and turns. I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next' Reader Review 'It takes you continuously into new places' Reader Review 'The writer creates the scene with such colour' Reader Review