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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015052286252
Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521011094
Prior to European expansion, communities of the Indian subcontinent had a strong maritime orientation. In this new archaeological study, Himanshu Prabha Ray explores seafaring activity, religious travel and political economy in this ancient period. By using archaeological data from the Red Sea to the Indonesian archipelago, she reveals how the early history of peninsular South Asia is interconnected with that of its Asian and Mediterranean partners in the Indian Ocean Region. The book departs from traditional studies, focusing on the communities maritime history rather than agrarian expansion and the emergence of the state. Rather than being a prime mover in social, economic and religious change, the state is viewed as just one participant in a complex interplay of social actors, including merchants, guilds, boat-builders, sailors, pilgrims, religious clergy and craft-producers. A study that will be welcomed by students of Archaeology and Ancient History, particularly those interested in South Asian Studies.
Author : Yū. Ḍī Jayasēkara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015030533270
Author : Senarat Paranavitana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9559264052
Author : Mahānāma,Ananda W. P. Guruge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X002312690
Author : Ruth Barnes,David Parkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317793434
Recognising the fundamental role both of shipping communities and the technologies crafted and shared by them, this book explores the types of ships, methods of navigation and modes of water-borne trade in the Indian Ocean region and the way they affected the development of distinctive settlements against a changing but strong sense of regional consciousness and identity.
Author : W. R. Halliday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107679085
This book contains the text of the Gray Lectures delivered in 1932 on the influence of Indo-European legend on Greek myth.
Author : John Holt
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822349822
Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.
Author : Jonathan Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134949793
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 way acceptable to the majority Sinhala population. The new Premadasa presidency faces huge economic and political problems with large sections of the island under the control of the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) and militant separatist Tamil groups operating in the north and south. This book is not a conventional political history of Sri Lanka. Instead, it attempts to shed fresh light on the historical roots of the ethnic crisis and uses a combination of historical and anthropologial evidence to challenge the widely-held belief that the conflict in Sri Lanka is simply the continuation of centuries of animosity between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. The authors show how modern ethnic identities have been made and re-made since the colonial period with the war between Tamils and the Sinhala-dominant government accompanied by rhetorical wars over archeological sites and place-name etymologies, and the political use of the national past. The book is also one of the first attempts to focus on local perceptions of the crisis and draws on a broad range of sources, from village fieldwork to newspaper controversies. Its interest extends beyond contemporary politics to history, anthropology and development studies.
Author : Steven Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521570541
This book presents an answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part I distinguishes between systematic and narrative thought in the Pali texts of Theravada Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, arguing that nirvana produces closure in both, and setting nirvana in the wider category of Buddhist Felicities. Part II explores other Buddhist utopias (both eu-topias, 'good places', and ou-topias, 'no-places'), and relates Buddhist utopianism to studies of European and American utopian writing. The book ends with a close reading of the Vessantara Jataka, which highlights the conflict between the ascetic quest for closure and ultimate felicity, and the ongoing demands of ordinary life and society. Steven Collins discusses these issues in relation to textuality, world history and ideology in premodern civilizations, aiming to contribute to an alternate vision of Buddhist history, which can hold both the inside and the outside of texts together.
Author : Iravatham Mahadevan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052645986
This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C.E. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. The work includes texts, transliteration, translation, detailed commentary, inscriptional glossary, and indexes.
Author : M. W. Sugathapala De Silva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Islands of the Indian Ocean
ISBN : UOM:39015009349492
Author : K. Indrapala
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511674121
This long awaited publication embodies the researches of a lifetime undertaken by Dr K Indrapala from the time he started his career as an academic in the University of Ceylon in 1960. It gives shape to his long held, though often controversial views that the Sinhalese and Tamils of Sri Lanka are descended from common ancestors who lived in the country in prehistoric and protohistoric times and have a shared history going back to over two thousand years. He argues that through a process of language replacement the north Indian Prakrit dialects spread among the vast majority of the people paving the way for the evolution of Sinhalese while Tamil became the dominant language in some parts of the island leading to the emergence of Sri Lankan Tamil. Buddhism, though at first common to both groups later became a religion associated with the Sinhalese. The rule of the Cola dynasty in the 11th century paved the way for the rise of Saivism among the Tamils. In the end Buddhism disappeared completely as a religion of the Sri Lankan Tamils and Saivism assumed dominance among them. The result was that religion in addition to language became a marker of ethnic identity. This research covers the period up to 1200 by which time the process of evolution had more or less stabilized and the chance of one absorbing the other eventually had receded, although assimilation of elements of one group into the other continued.