...Patrick Peebles Sri Lanka: A History . By Chandra Richard de Silva . The Afro-Asian Nations: History and Culture Series. New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House , 1987 . xviii, 316 pp. $40.00. (Distributed by Advent Books) Sri Lanka . Compiled by Vijaya Samaraweera . World...

...Amita Shastri Managing Ethnic Tensions in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Sri Lanka, 1880–1985 . By K. M. de Silva . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1986 . xix , 429 pp. $19.75. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy . By S. J. Tambiah . Chicago...

...John D. Rogers Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka . By Richard Gombrich and Gananath Obeyesekere . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1988 . xvi , 484 pp. $49.50. The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka: Religious Tradition, Reinterpretation and Response...

...Rajesh Venugopal Abstract How can crisis, breakdown, violence, and collapse be explained in the social sciences? This paper engages with this broad question by studying an extraordinary episode of mass tension and anxiety in postwar Sri Lanka caused by a mystery male predator known as the “grease...

... this discourse in the face of wider participation in public culture in the first half of the twentieth century. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who became prime minister in 1956, eight years after Sri Lanka gained independence from British rule, is popularly seen as one of the few elite politicians of the late...

...Ian Barrow Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony . By Sujit Sivasundaram . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . x, 369 pp. ISBN: 9780226038223 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017...

...Deborah Winslow Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War . Edited by Amarnath Amarasingam and Daniel Bass . London : Hurst Publishers , 2016 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9781849045735 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Charles S. Blackton Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 Sri Lanka: From Dominion to Republic . By Lucy M. Jacob . Delhi : National Publishing House , 1973 . ix, 247 pp. Appendices, Selected Bibliography, Index. Rs. 35.00. 560 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Robert N. Kearney Abstract In July 1976, slightly more than five years after the collapse of the 1971 insurrection in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), the protracted series of trials of alleged insurgents wound to a conclusion. Except for the cases of a small number of suspects not in custody, some of whom...

...Marguerite S. Robinson Religion and Ideology in Sri Lanka . By Francois Houtart . Bangalore : Theological Publications , 1974 . xvi, 541 pp. Map, Notes, Tables, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, n.p.l. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 583 concepts...

...Katharine Smith Diehl Images of Sri Lanka through American Eyes: Travellers in Ceylon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; A Select Anthology . Compiled and Edited By H.A.I. Goonetileke . Colombo, Sri Lanka : U.S. Information Service , 1976 . xxx, 411 pp. Introductory Notes...

...H. L. Seneviratne Robe and Plough: Monasticism and Economic Interest in Early Medieval Sri Lanka . By R. A. L. H. Gunawardana . Tucson : University of Arizona Press for the Association for Asian Studies (Association for Asian Studies Monographs and Papers, 35), 1979 . xii, 377 pp...

...Steven Kemper Abstract The Buddhist monkhood in each of the Theravāda countries of Southern Asia—Thailand, Burma, and Sri Lanka—is segmented into smaller fraternities (nikāyas) . In Sri Lanka these fraternities have proliferated since the early nineteenth century. This proliferation has been...

...Edmund R. Leach Vedda Villages of Anuradhapura: The Historical Anthropology of a Community in Sri Lanka . By James Brow . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1978 . xv , 268 pp. $15. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 622 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

..., and are applied to recent changes in agrarian relations and ideological practice in Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 List of References Alavi H. 1973 . “ Peasant Classes and Primordial Loyalties .” Journal of Peasant Studies 1 , 1 : 23...

... University of Alabama in Birmingham The Disintegrating Village: Social Change in Rural Sri Lanka. Edited by BARRIE M. MORRISON, M. P. MOORE, and M. U. ISHAKLEBBE. Colombo: Lake House Investments, 1979. ix, 273 pp. Index. N.p. This modest and useful volume brings together six short studies of villages...

... of particular passages. It will also be of major use to beginning and nonspecialist students of Indian philosphy who at last have a readable and accurate translation of one of the most significant texts of early Madhyamaka Buddhism. PHYLLIS GRANOFF McMaster University Religiousness in Sri Lanka. Edited by J O H...

...James Brow Basic Needs, Poverty and Government Policies in Sri Lanka . By Peter Richards and Wilbert Gooneratne . Geneva : International Labour Office , 1980 . 176 pp. Sw F 17.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 187 electoral...

... Sklavenhaltergesellschaft?" published in 1963 in Archiv orientalni 31: 353-63- My answer to the question of the existence of the slave society was and remains negative. TlMOTEUS POKORA Prague The Segmentation of Monastic Fraternities in Sri Lanka May I offer a few comments on Steven Kemper's paper, "Reform and Segmentation...

...John R. Williams Diversity in Harmony: A Study of the Leaders of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka . By Hans Wismeijer . Utrecht : University of Utrecht , Department of Cultural Anthropology, 1981 . xiii, 333 pp. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983...