... to the literature treating the transformation of power relations between Indian regional elites from the pre-British era until recent times. DAVID G. DICKASON Western Michigan University Rural Change and Spatial Reorganization in Sri Lanka: Barriers against Development of Traditional Sinhalese Local Communities...

..., standing in the mid-1990s, would redefine as “chauvinism.” Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 References Ames Michael M. 1973 – “Westernization or Modernization: the Case of the Sinhalese Buddhism .” Social Compass 20 : 139 –70. Amunugama Sarath . 1978...

...D. E. Hettiaratchi Sinhalese Literature . By C. E. Godakum-bura . Colombo : Colombo Apothecaries Co. , 1955 . xi, 376 , Indices. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 653 The Colebrooke-Cameron Papers: Documents on British Colonial Policy...

...E. R. Leach Sinhalese Village . By Bryce Ryan in collaboration with L. D. Jayasena and D. C. R. Wickremesinghe . Coral Gables, Fla. : University of Miami Press , 1958 . 229 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 420 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the country...

...Stella Kramrisch Mediaeval Sinhalese Art . By Ananda K. Coomaraswamy . New York : Pantheon , 2nd ed. , rev., 1956 . xvi, 344 . Appendices, Glossary, Index, 53 Plates and 152 Figures (in text). $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 466 THE JOUENAL...

.... 72 . 3 Dumont Louis and Pocock D. F. , Contributions to Indian Sociology , No. 1 ( Paris : Mouton and Co. , 1957 ), pp. 39 – 40 . 4 Redfield , p. 68 . 5 Ryan Bryce , Sinhalese Village ( University of Miami Press , 1958 ), pp. 90...

...Diran Kavork Dohanian Sinhalese Monastic Architecture: The Vihāras of Anurādhapura . By Senake Bandaranayake . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1974 . University of Amsterdam Studies in South Asian Culture, IV. xviii, 404 pp. Figures, Plates, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index, Notes. 175 guilders...

...Richard Gombrich Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1750–1900: A Study of Religious Revival and Change . By Kitsiri Malalgoda . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1976 . xiii, 300 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $16.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Deborah Winslow Abstract The author of this article examines the role of Sinhalese Buddhist deities within the long Sinhalese tradition of using Buddhism to support political authority. Extensive contemporary information on deity territories suggests that because state political integration...

...H. L. Seneviratne Political Structure in a Changing Sinhalese Village . By Marguerite S. Robinson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , Cambridge South Asian Studies 15, 1975 . xvi, 376 pp. Notes, Tables, Maps, Figures, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $27.00 Copyright...

...Michael M. Ames Abstract This paper is intended to present in outline form a structural analysis of the total religious system of the Sinhalese of Ceylon. The Sinhalese, excluding those few who are Hindu, Christian, or Muslim, are Theravada Buddhists who also indulge in a rich array of magical...

...Tissa Fernando Caste and Family in the Politics of the Sinhalese, 1947–1976 . By Janice Jiggins . London : Cambridge University Press , 1979 . xiii, 189 pp. Glossary, Tables, Maps, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980...

...Bryan Pfaffenberger The Break-up of Sri Lanka: The Sinhalese-Tamil Conflict . By A. Jeyaratnam Wilson . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1988 . xvi , 240 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 196 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES understanding...

...John Halverson Abstract Even under the best of circumstances, “religion” can be a slippery term. In Buddhist Sri Lanka (Ceylon), it is especially so. Anthropologists recognize a religious complex that includes spirit exorcism as well as orthodox Buddhism; yet in Sinhalese usage, the word...

...Stella Kramrisch Classical Sinhalese Sculpture . By D. T. Devendra . London : Alec Tiranti , 1958 . 48 . Illustrated, Chronology Table, Glossary, Map. 30s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 559 7956, this book provides the student of Indian...

... continued to dominate the scene. The Structure of Sinhalese Healing Rituals NUR YALMAN AS social anthropology has set up new standards for the analysis of social structure, the lag in the study of religious thought and behavior has become increasingly apparent. New departures have been rare in this region...

... York : Basic Books , 1973 ), p. 360 . 4 Ray H. C. , History of Ceylon , 1 , 2 ( Colombo, Sri Lanka : Ceylon Univ. Press , 1959 ), p. 44 . The complexity of the diffusion of astrological knowledge is suggested by the fact that although early Sinhalese contact...

... lacked effective local institutions to integrate the society, and the Sinhalese elite relied on welfare and preferential policies for the Sinhalese majority to maintain power. These alienated the minorities and resulted in Tamil demands for a separate state. This article documents one of the more...

... 1964), and the impact of industrialization and economic development on the Ceylonese community and caste structure and the “emergence of a class of industrial entrepreneurs” (Evers 1964). In all these booklength studies traditional Sinhalese institutions and values are depicted as distintegrating under...

...Bryan Pfaffenberger Abstract Tamil Hindu and Sinhalese Buddhist pilgrims gather each year at Sri Lanka's most important polyethnic shrine, Kataragama, where they worship the deity Skanda (or Murukanṉ). The remarkable tone of ecumenism and tolerance there stands in clear contrast to the mutual...