...Garrett M. Field Abstract In this article, I juxtapose the ways the “father of modern Sinhala drama,” John De Silva, and the Sinhala language reformer, Munidasa Cumaratunga, utilized music for different nationalist projects. First, I explore how De Silva created musicals that articulated Arya...

...K. M. de Silva Abstract Among the cardinal weaknesses of existing studies on British land policy in Ceylon is the almost total neglect of any reference to the theoretical foundations of this policy, and the tendency to study the situation in Ceylon in isolation instead of against the background...

...Chandra R. de Silva Listening to the Displaced: Action Research in the Conflict Zones of Sri Lanka . By Kerry Demusz . Oxford : Oxfam Publishing , 2000 . 68 pp. $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 263...

...Chandra R. de Silva Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India, 1500–1663 . By Pius Malekandathil . New Delhi : Manohar , 2001 . 324 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 313 is popular enough to be challenged...

...David J. Silva The Korean Alphabet of 1446: Expositions, OPA, the Visible Speech Sounds, Annotated Translation, Future Applicability . By Sek Yen Kim-Cho . Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books ; Seoul: Asea Culture Press, 2002 . 475 pp. $70.00 (cloth). The Korean Alphabet: Its History...

...Chandra R. de Silva Education, Development and Underdevelopment . Edited by Sureshchandra Shukla and Rekha Kaul . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1998 . 308 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Learning and Freedom: Policy, Pedagogy and Paradigms in Indian Education and Schooling . By John...

.... Jayewardene of Sri Lanka; A Political Biography. Vol. 2: From 1956 to his Retirement. By K. M. DE SILVA and H O W A R D W R I G G I N S . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. xiv, 754 pp. $38.00 (cloth). If this book had ended in 1979, when the authors initiated the study, it would have been...

...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...

...Amita Shastri Regional Powers and Small State Security: India and Sri Lanka, 1977–90 . By K. M. de Silva . Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press , 1995 . xvii, 388 pp. $48.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

... 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...

...Tissa Fernando Sri Lanka: A Survey . Edited by K. M. de Silva . Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii, and London: C. Hurst & Co. (for the Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg), 1977 . xvi, 496 pp. Maps, Tables, Glossary, Index. $22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... "the mythical crown of rays" that surrounded the factual details. Both are useful, and many critics have lost their way by discarding the latter. Lily de Silva analyzes the meaning of Indrakila, the ritual pole that recurs in many Sinhalese rituals. She has shown how the pole of Hindu ritual has been...

... of the Third Earl Grey (Secretary of State for the Colonies 184652) and Viscount Torrington. EDITED BY K. M. DE SILVA. Kandy & Colombo: K. V. G. de Silva & Sons, 1965. xiii, 240 pp. Index, Errata. Rs. 15. Collections of letters seldom make exciting reading unless written by gifted correspondents or rich...

... of 1911 . Colombo : H. C. Cottle . Dep A. C . 1969 . A History of the Ceylon Police . Vol. 2, 1866–1913 . Colombo : Times of Ceylon . de Silva C. R . 1979 . “The Impact of Nationalism on Education: The Schools Takeover (1961) and the University Admissions Crisis, 1970–1975...

... contribution to urban studies in general and a useful teaching text for urban studies/development studies. MRIDULA UDAYAGIRI University of California, Davis Internationalization of Ethnic Conflict. Edited by K. M. DE SILVA and R. J . M A Y . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 2 1 1 p p . $55.00. This slim...

...Anne M. Blackburn Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka . Edited by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz and Chandra R. de Silva . Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press , 1998 . viii , 212 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Charles F. Keyes Ethnic Conflict in Buddhist Societies: Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Burma . Edited by K. M. de Silva , Pensri Duke , Ellen S. Goldberg , and Nathan Katz . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1988 . iv, 220 pp. $38.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... widely and generally concerned with . change in the world's new and developing nations. The book deserves a place beside Caplan's earlier study, and this is high praise indeed. JOHN T. HITCHCOCK University of Wisconsin, Madison Sri Lanka: A Survey. Edited by K. M. DE SILVA. Honolulu: University Press...

... Regional Powers and Small State Security: India and Sri Lanka, 1977-90. By K. M. DE SiLVA. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995. xvii, 388 pp. $48.50 (cloth). This book seeks to make a strong case regarding India's intervention in Sri Lanka in the eighties and to serve as a political...