Sri Lanka, history/Bibliography

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• Samarasinghe, S. W. R. de A. and Vidyamali Samarasinghe. Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka. (1998). 214 pp.
• Bandarage, Asoka. Colonialism in Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of the Kandyan Highlands, 1833-1886 (1983),
• Bullion, A.J. India, Sri Lanka and the Tamil Crisis, 1976-94; An International Perspective (1995)
• DeSilva, K. M. A History of Sri Lanka. U. of California Press, 1st ed. 1981. 603 pp. standard history by a leading scholar
• DeSilva, K. M. A History of Sri Lanka (2nd ed. 2005), 800pp; standard history by a leading scholar
• DeSilva, K. M. Regional Powers and Small State Security: India and Sri Lanka, 1977-90. (1995). 388 pp.
• Krishna, Sankaran. Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood. (1999). 316 pp.
• Peebles, Patrick. The History of Sri Lanka (2006) standard history by a leading scholar.
• Perera, Nihal. Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Postcolonial Identity in Sri Lanka (1998) online edition
• Philips, C. H. Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon (1961) online edition
• Sabaratnam, Lakshmanan. "Colonial Rule and Its Consequences: The Social Bases of the Modern State and Nation in Sri Lanka, 16th to 18th Centuries." PhD dissertation University of Washington 1984. 465 pp. DAI 1985 45(11): 3459-A. DA8501090

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• Samarasinghe, Nayani. "The Policies of Three Prime Ministers of Ceylon from 1948-1956, with Special Reference to Relations with Great Britain." PhD dissertation U. of Leeds 1989. 294 pp. DAI 1990 51(1): 287-A. BRD-88690 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Spencer, Jonathan, ed. Sri Lanka: History and the Roots of Conflict (1990), essays by scholars; online edition
• Strathern, Alan. "Controversies in Sri Lankan History." History Compass 2004 2(Asia). Issn: 1478-0542 historiography online link
• Strathern, Alan. "Theoretical Approaches to Sri Lankan History and the Early Portuguese Period." Modern Asian Studies 2004 38(1): 191-226. Issn: 0026-749x
• Suckling, Horatio John. Ceylon: A General Description of the Island, Historical, Physical... (1876) full text online

Primary sources

• Ferguson, John. Ceylon in 1893: Describing the Progress of the Island Since 1803 (1893) 491 pages; full text online

Society, ethnicity and culture

• Cartman, James. Hinduism in Ceylon (Colombo: MD. Gunasena 1957)
• DeVotta, Linus Neil. "From Linguistic Nationalism to Ethnic Conflict: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective." PhD dissertation U. of Texas, Austin 2001. 445 pp. DAI 2002 62(10): 3547-A. DA3031040 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Duncan, James S. The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom. (1990). 229 pp.
• Gombrich, Richard F. Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo (1988) online edition
• Gray, R. H. "The Decline of Mortality in Ceylon and the Demographic Effects of Malaria Control." Population Studies 1974 28(2): 205-230. Issn: 0032-4728 Fulltext: in Jstor
• Grossholtz, Jean. Forging Capitalist Patriarchy: The Economic and Social Transformation of Feudal Sri Lanka and Its Impact on Women. (1984). 166 pp.
• Gunasingam, Murugar. "Origins of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism (1833-1923)." PhD dissertation U. of Sydney [Australia] 1999. 469 pp. DAI 2004 65(1): 257-A. DA3119786 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Holt, John Clifford. The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka. (1996). 147 pp.
• Jayaweera, Swarna, ed. Women in Post-Independence Sri Lanka. (2002). 371 pp.
• Jayawardena, Kumari. Nobodies to Somebodies: The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka. (2002) 412 pp.
• Kearney, R. N. Communalism and language in the Politics of Ceylon (1967)
• Kemper, Steven. The Presence of the Past: Chronicles, Politics, and Culture in Sinhala Life (1991)
• Manogaran, Chelvadurai. Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka (1987)
• Manogaran, Chelvadurai, and Bryan Pfaffenberger, eds. The Sri Lankan Tamils: Ethnicity and Identity (1994), 247pp, essays by scholars online edition
• Obeyesekere, Ranjini. Sri Lankan Theater in a Time of Terror: Political Satire in a Permitted Space. (1999). 210 pp.
• Quere, Martin. Christianity in Sri Lanka under the Portuguese Padroado 1597-1658 (1995)
• Roberts, Michael. "Tamil Tiger 'Martyrs': Regenerating Divine Potency? Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 2005 28(6): 493-514. Issn: 1057-610x
• Roberts, Michael. Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931 (1982)
• Samarasinghe, Nira. "Colonial Policy, Ethnic Politics and the Minorities in Ceylon, 1927-1947." PhD dissertation Oxford U. 1988. 386 pp. DAI 1992 53(5): 1635-A. BRD-96866 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Seneviratne, H. L. The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka. (1999). 368 pp.
• Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy (1986)
• Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka (1992).
• Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam. The Break-up of Sri Lanka: The Sinhalese-Tamil Conflict (1988)