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Sri Lanka - REFERENCE




Sri Lanka - Bibliography

Sri Lanka
Arasaratnam, Sinnappah. Ceylon. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:
      Prentice-Hall, 1984.

Baxter, Craig, Yogendra K. Malik, Charles H. Kennedy, and Robert C. Oberst. "Sri
      Lanka." Pages 295-352 in Government and Politics in South
      Asia. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1987.

Canararetna, Surjit M. "Nation Building in a Multiethnic Setting: The Sri Lankan
      Case," Asian Affairs, 14, Spring 1987, 1-19.

Codrington, Humphrey William. A Short History of Ceylon. Freeport, New
      York: Books for Libraries Press, 1970.

de Silva, Chandra Richard. Sri Lanka: A History. New Delhi: Vikas,
      1987.

------. "Sri Lanka: The Ethnic Crisis," Asian Thought and Society: An
      International Review, 10, July 1985, 137-41.

de Silva, K.M. A History of Sri Lanka. Delhi: Oxford University Press,
      1981.

de Silva, K.M. (ed.). Sri Lanka: A Survey. London: C. Hurst, 1977.

Ellawala, H. Social History of Early Ceylon. Colombo: Department of
      Cultural Affairs, 1969.

Geiger, Wilhelm (ed.). Culavamsa, Being the More Recent Part of the
      Mahavamsa. London: Pali Text Society, 1980.

------ (trans.). The Mahavamsa or the Great Chronicle of Ceylon.
      London: Oxford University Press, 1912.

Hart, Judith. Sri Lanka: An Island in Crisis. London: International
      Emergency Committee on Sri Lanka, 1986.

Hettiarachchy, Tilak. History of Kingship in Ceylon up to the Fourth
      Century A.D. Colombo: Lake House Investments, 1972.

Jeffries, Charles. Ceylon: The Path to Independence. New York: Praeger,
      1963.

Kearney, Robert N. "Ethnic Conflict and the Tamil Separatist Movement in Sri
      Lanka," Asian Survey, 25, No. 9, September 1985, 898-917.

Knighton, William. The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the
      Present Time. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845.

Ludowyk, E.F.C. A Short History of Ceylon. New York: Praeger, 1967.

Mahendran, Sharmini. "Sri Lanka: A Country in Crisis," Harvard International
      Review, 9, November-December 1986, 48, 50, 55.

Manor, James (ed.). Sri Lanka: In Change and Crisis. New York: St.
      Martin's Press, 1984.

Matthews, Bruce. "Radical Conflict and the Rationalization of Violence in Sri
      Lanka," Pacific Affairs, 59, Spring 1986, 28-44.

Mendis, Garrett Champness. Ceylon Today and Yesterday: Main Currents of
      Ceylon History. Colombo: Associated Newspapers of Ceylon, 1963.

------. The Early History of Ceylon. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing
      House, 1932.

Misquitta, Michelle. "Sri Lanka." Pages 311-15 in Asia and Pacific,
      1984. Saffron Walden, Essex, United Kingdom: World of Information,
      1984.

Nagarajan, K.V. "Troubled Paradise: Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka,"
      Conflict, 6, No. 4, 1986, 333-53.

Nicholas, Cyril Wace, and S. Paranavitana. A Concise History of Ceylon: From
      the Earliest Times to the Arrival of the Portuguese in 1505. Colombo:
      Ceylon University Press, 1961.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. "Political Violence and the Future of Democracy in Sri
      Lanka," Internationales Asienforum [Munich], 15, Nos. 1-2, May
      1984, 39-60.

Pfaffenberger, Bryan. "Sri Lanka in 1986: A Nation at the Crossroads," Asian
      Survey, 27, February 1987, 155-62.

Pieris, Paulus Edward. Ceylon, The Portuguese Era: Being a History of the
      Island for the Period, 1505-1658. Dehiwala, Sri Lanka: Tisara
      Prakasakayo, 1983.

Rahula, Walpola. History of Buddhism in Ceylon: The Anuradhapura Period,
      3rd Century B.C.-10th Century A.D. Colombo: M.D. Gunasena, 1966.

Tambiah, S.J. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of
      Democracy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Tennent, Sir James Emerson. Ceylon: An Account of the Island. London:
      Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.

Tresidder, Argus John. Ceylon: An Introduction to the "Resplendent
      Land." Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand, 1960.

Whittington, Sherrill. Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Background, Recent
      Developments and the Prospects for Resolution. (Current Issues Paper
      No. 3.) Canberra: Legislative Research Service, Department of the
      Parliamentary Library, October 1987.

Wilber, Donald N. The Land and the People of Ceylon. (rev. ed.)
      Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972.

Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam. Politics in Sri Lanka, 1947-1979. (2d. ed.)
      London: Macmillan, 1979.

Winnius, George Davison. The Fatal History of Portuguese Ceylon: Transition
      to Dutch Rule. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Wriggins, W. Howard. Ceylon: Dilemmas of a New Nation. Princeton, New
      Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960.

Zeylanicus. Ceylon: Between Orient and Occident. London: Elek Books,
      1970.

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CITATION: Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. The Country Studies Series. Published 1988-1999.

Please note: This text comes from the Country Studies Program, formerly the Army Area Handbook Program. The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.


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