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Patterns of Community Structure in Colombo, Sri Lanka: An Investigation of Contemporary Urban Life in South Asia

Jeanne Marecek
Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1025–1026.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2646572
Published: 01 November 1996
...Jeanne Marecek Patterns of Community Structure in Colombo, Sri Lanka: An Investigation of Contemporary Urban Life in South Asia . By Neville S. Arachchige-Don . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1994 . xx, 289 pp. $39.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Challenges to the Received History of Bharata Natyam - Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bharatanātyam and Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Kristen Rudisill
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 774–777.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821001091
Published: 01 August 2021
... in Colombo, Sri Lanka . By Ahalya Satkunaratnam . Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press , 2020 . x, 171 pp. ISBN: 9780819578907 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 Wesleyan University Press has recently published two important works on the dance...
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International Conference on the Settlement of the Laotian Question 1961–62 The Colombo Plan; Some Political Aspects

Jane C. Nahm
Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 629–630.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2050269
Published: 01 August 1964
...Jane C. Nahm International Conference on the Settlement of the Laotian Question 1961–62 . By George Modelski . Canberra : Department of International Relations. The Australian National University , 1963 , 156 . $2.50. (paper) The Colombo Plan; Some Political Aspects . By L. P...
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The Colombo Plan and Other Essays

Wilfred Malenbaum
Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (4): 597–599.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2941643
Published: 01 August 1957
.... Cartier-Bresson's aesthetic grasp of his subject seems much better than that of anyone else concerned with these books, and indeed it seems in a class with that of the Sung landscape painters themselves. New York City CHRISTOPHER RAND The Colombo Plan and Other Essays. By FREDERIC BENHAM. New York...
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Several miles outside Colombo near the town of Piliyandala, one finds a statue of Venerable Soma that has been recently added to a roadside shrine originally built to honor the Buddha and to protect a bodhi tree. Although the proliferation of Buddha statues around the island's roadways and marketplaces has been taking place for several decades, it is extremely unusual to see another figure from recent Sri Lankan history to be honored in the same space as the Buddha and the bodhi tree.

Several miles outside Colombo near the town of Piliyandala, one finds a sta...

in Resisting the Global in Buddhist Nationalism: Venerable Soma's Discourse of Decline and Reform > Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2008
Figure 5. Several miles outside Colombo near the town of Piliyandala, one finds a statue of Venerable Soma that has been recently added to a roadside shrine originally built to honor the Buddha and to protect a bodhi tree. Although the proliferation of Buddha statues around the island's More
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The Action Phase of the 1915 Riots

Charles S. Blackton
Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 235–254.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2942623
Published: 01 February 1970
... in this centenary of British conquest, led to a communal clash in Kandy during Wesak (Buddha's birthday) in May 1915. During the following two weeks, the riots spread to Colombo and along the west coast, greed increasingly matching creed as a prime motive. The colonial government reacted slowly, allowing disorder...
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Economic and Political Factors in the 1915 Riots

Kumari Jayawardena
Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 223–233.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2942622
Published: 01 February 1970
... for exploitation of the Ceylonese. A Buddhist temperence movement had become a channel for articulating nationalist sentiments and was viewed with suspicion by the colonial regime. Labor unrest and trade unionism had appeared in Colombo prior to the riots. There, the 1915 disorders were led by the most militant...
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After the War: A New Patriotism in Sri Lanka?

Nira Wickramasinghe
Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1045–1054.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911809990738
Published: 01 November 2009
... of recovery for the ravaged North. A “northern spring” would soon come. On the streets of Colombo, there was a feeling of trepidation, while celebrations, some spontaneous and others orchestrated by sycophantic politicians, peppered the capital. The day had been given as a special holiday for the war-weary...
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The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka: An Interdisciplinary Study

Dinesha Samararatne
Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 699–701.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000950
Published: 01 August 2019
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Ceylon and Her Citizens The Senate of Ceylon at Work

Howard Wriggins
Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (4): 652–654.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2941670
Published: 01 August 1957
... with the same authority as V. P. Menon. RICHARD L. PARK University of California, Berkeley Ceylon and Her Citizens. By I. D. S. and M. I. WEERAWARDANA. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. vii, 272. Appendixes, Index. $1.20. The Senate of Ceylon at Work. By I. D. S. WEERAWARDANA. Colombo: Ceylon University...
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Ceylon

Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (5): 249–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800151678
Published: 01 September 1968
.... With illus. and photos, by the author. Translated from the German by Doris Berta Pralle. Colombo, Lake House Investments [1966] 57 p. illus. 7974. SHAFFER, E. N . Deutsche Rundfunkbriicke nach Siidasien. Aussenpolitik 18 (Dec. 1967), Articles 751-757. 79990. MAHROOF, M.M.M. The faqirs of Ceylon. 7975...
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South Asia (General)

Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (5): 870.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800148223
Published: 01 September 1957
... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 870 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ASIAN STUDIES 1956 University of Ceylon review, vol. 14, no. 1/2. Society] Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday 1956. Colombo. [1956] 56 p. (Around the world program) Visvabharati quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3-4. CEYLON...
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Social Mobility, Popular Ideology, and Collective Violence in Modern Sri Lanka

John D. Rogers
Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (3): 583–602.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2056900
Published: 01 August 1987
... Asia 4 : 1 – 20 . Alles A. C. 1979 . Insurgency—1971 . 3 d. ed. Colombo : Mervyn Mendis . Amunugama Sarath , and Meyer Éric . 1984 . “ Remarques sur la violence dans l'idéologie bouddhique et la pratique sociale à Sri Lanka (Ceylan) .” Études rurales 95–96: 47 – 62...
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Ceylon

Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (5): 870–871.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800148235
Published: 01 September 1957
... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 870 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ASIAN STUDIES 1956 University of Ceylon review, vol. 14, no. 1/2. Society] Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday 1956. Colombo. [1956] 56 p. (Around the world program) Visvabharati quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3-4. CEYLON...
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Colonization and Ethnic Conflict in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka

Patrick Peebles
Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 30–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2058432
Published: 01 February 1990
... Amerasinghe Nihal . 1976 . “ An Overview of Settlement Schemes in Sri Lanka .” Asian Survey 16 : 620 –36. Arumugam S . 1969 . Water Resources of Ceylon: Its Utilisation and Development . Colombo : Water Resources Board . Brass Paul R. 1976 . “ Ethnicity and Nationality Formation...
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Ceylon

Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (5): 774–775.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800159236
Published: 01 September 1958
... of society in Ceylon as depicted in the Saddharma-ratnavaliya and other literature of the thirteenth century. Colombo, K.V.G., de Silva, 1956. 415 p. ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES IN CEYLON. Lanka Mahila Stmtiti, 1910-1955. [Colombo? 1956?] 157 p. BECHERT, HEINZ. Ober Singhalesisches im Palikanon. WZKSO...
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South Asia

Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (5): 868–870.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800148211
Published: 01 September 1957
... future in the Philippines. Philippine Asia newly added to the general library. journal of public health 1 (Mar. 1956), no. 13-27. Jan. 1956-Mar. 1957. Berkeley. 6-10. CEYLON GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. Bulletin. INTENGAU, CARMEN L L . Composition of vol. 9, no. 1/2. Jan.-June 1955. Colombo. SOUTH ASIA 869...
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The Spiral of Suicide and Social Change in Sri Lanka

Robert N. Kearney, Barbara D. Miller
Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 45 (1): 81–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2056825
Published: 01 November 1985
... of References Abhayaratne O. E. R. , and Jayewardene C. H. S. . 1965 . “ Internal Migration in Ceylon .” Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies 8 : 68 – 90 . Aratchy G. U. 1972 . “ From Highway to Blind Alley: A Note on Youth and Higher Education .” Marga (Colombo) 1 : 75 – 85...
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Ceylon

Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (5): 219–222.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800084618
Published: 01 September 1969
... and humour in court in Ceylon. [Colombo, Printed at the Colombo Apothecaries' Co., 1966] xxvii, 132 p. Articles 8446. Ahmed, Zainab. Ceylon: a glance at her people. £>K22(Mar./Apr. 1968), 10-12. 8447. Junger, Ernst. Ceylon. Antaios 10 (Nov. 1968), 313-336. 8448. Selvanayagam, S. Market gardening...
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Ceylon

Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (5): 638–640.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800111738
Published: 01 September 1960
.... UA 11, no. 5 (1959), 425-429. WHEELER, Sir ROBERT ERIC MORTIMER. Early India and Pakistan: Ashoka. New York, Praeger [1959] 241 p. (Ancient peoples and places, v. 12) Books that matter. CEYLON Bibliography and Reference SOUTH ASIA GENERAL Ceylon year book, 19S8. Colombo, Government Publications...
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