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...Sasanka Perera Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World . By Steven Kemper . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . x, 503 pp. ISBN: 9780226199078 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018...

... Ramanathan , op. cit. , p. 115 . Under Ordinance No. 35 of 1908, sec. 5, the governor had power, during public emergencies, to order a telegraphic message to be intercepted, detained, or not be transmitted. 22 See, for example, E. W. Perera Papers (University of Ceylon Library): Perera...

...John D. Rogers Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Postcolonial Identity in Sri Lanka . By Nihal Perera . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1998 . 217 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 243...

...Alan Strathern The Portuguese Missionary in 16th and 17th Century Ceylon: The Spiritual Conquest . By Gaston Perera . Colombo : Vijitha Yapa , 2009 . xvi, 430 pp. Rs. 1000. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Gaston Perera is known for his historical...

...Jacques Maquet Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 New Dimensions of Social Stratification in Rural Sri Lanka . By Jayanantha Perera . Colombo : Lake House Investments , 1985 . xvi, 212 pp. Tables, Appendix, Glossary, Maps, Bibliography, Index. N.p. BOOK...

..., obtain subsidies for a school, have money allocated for the construction of a road. All these advantages are channeled through the village leader who has been able by persuasion, pressure, threats, corruption, and thuggery to deliver a bloc of votes to the candidate. These activities were, writes Perera...

...James Chin Singapore: The Global City State . By Geoffrey Murray and Audrey Perera . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1996 . xiii, 285 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1071 Metzner never had a command...

... way Tahira Naqvi sustains a tension and suspense that make many of her stories compulsively readable. BAPSI SIDHWA Brandeis University Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Postco/onial Identity in Sri Lanka. By N I H A L PERERA. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. 217 pp. $49.00 (cloth...

... in PARANAVITANA, S. The emperor of Ceylon at the PAKISTAN 167 time of the arrival of the Portuguese in 1505. UCR 19 (Apr. 1961), 10-29. PERERA, A. Ceylon: fourteen years of freedom. EW 16 (June 1962), 12-13. PERERA, R. Sinhala culture and Buddhism. New orient 3 (Oct. 1962), 129-134. illus. PHADNIS, URMILA. Non...

... Gunasekera of Welitara in Balapitiya, Gabriel Perera Wijeyeratne of Rambukkana, P. H. Abraham Silva of Dodanduwa and Rambukkana, Piyadasa Sirisena and D. W. Wickremaratchi.38 Capsule biographies of two of these individuals and families elaborate these illustrations. Marthelis Rabel Ratnaweera, alias Malhamy...

...), 46-74. PERERA, L. H . HORACE. Ceylon under western MAHADEVA, NATARAJA. The law relating to the rule. Madras, Macmillan, 1959. 345 p. ill., ports., employment of children and young persons in map, plans. First pub. 1955. Ceylon. Ceylon labour gazette 10 (Oct. 1959), PERERA, LAKSHMAN S. Proprietary...

... the mobilization of women. The next two sections take up an engagement with the global in framing the work that women do in South Asian publics the world over. In the section on labor and globalization, Sonali Perera surveys the centrality of Sri Lankan garment workers to the construction of an NGO discourse...

... inferiority derives from the West. Overall, however, the study is valuable for the way it presents, in their own words, the personal experiences of middle-class women. JANET CONTURSI University of Minnesota New Dimensions of Social Stratification in Rural Sri Lanka. By JAYANANTHA PERERA. Colombo: Lake House...

... Perera , The Portuguese Missionary in 16th and 17th Century Ceylon: The Spiritual Conquest ( Colombo : Vijitha Yapa , 2009 ) . 3 Sanjay Subrahmanyam , “ Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia ,” Modern Asian Studies 31 , no. 3 ( 1997...

... (R.D. Wanigaratne), and two villages in the low country wet zone, one in the Southern Province (M. P. Moore et al.) and the other in the "Coconut Triangle" north of Colombo (U. L. Jayantha Perera). Each of these villages, of course, has its own unique history, but, despite the cultural and ecological...

... the sovereignty of the local ruler. On the contrary, the local ruler agreed to pay annual tribute to the Portuguese, a practice that was continued until the 1640s, when the Maldivian ruler began to pay tribute to the Dutch. His reliance on a somewhat outdated textbook (L. H. Horace Perera's Ceylon Under Western...

... edition appears, this reviewer may well adopt it as a supplementary text in an undergraduate course on the war. E D W I N E. MOISE Clemson University Singapore: The Global City State. By G E O F F R E Y M U R R A Y and A U D R E Y PERERA. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xiii, 285 pp. $55.00...

... Anuradhapura (Jayantha Perera); the Jaffna Tamil village named Pathamany (Newton Gunasinghe); old and new villages in the Monaragala District (Piers Vitebsky); another Kandyan village called Kotagepitiya (Andrew Kendrick); Rangama and Devideniya in the Samaragamuva District (Tamara Gunasekera); Kukulewa near...

.... Jayantha Perera). Each of these villages, of course, has its own unique history, but, despite the cultural and ecological differences among them, the changes they have experienced in recent years have been, in important respects, remarkably similar. These general features are discussed by the editors...

... W. Perera, francaise de science politique 6 (Apr.-June general manager, U.N.P. journals. Co- 1956), 352-59. lombo, 1955?] 226 p. In English, Sinhalese MENDIS, GARRETT CHAMPNESS, ed. The and Tamil. Colebrooke-Cameron papers: documents on VIJAYATUNGA, JINADASA. Isle of Lanka, British colonial policy...