LEMA: Bibliography: Ceylon

Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Books:

BROHIER, R.L. The Changing Face of Colombo (1505-1972): covering the Portuguese, Dutch, and British periods. With Addendum by Ismeth Raheem Views of Colombo, 1518-1900.Ê Colombo: Isidunu Publication, 2000 [2nd ed.]. [Originally publ: Colombo: Lake House Investments, 1984].

Colonial Empires Compared: Britain and the Netherlands 1750-1850. (eds.) Bob Moore and Henk van Nierop. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

DEWARAJA, Lorna. Sri Lanka Through French Eyes. Colombo: Institute of Fundamental Studies, 1989.

DUNCAN, James S. The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

GOONERATNE, Brendon. The Epic Struggle of the Kingdom of Kandy and its Relevance to Modern Indo-Sri Lankan Relations. London: Argus, 1995.

GOONERATNE, Brendon and GOONERATNE, Yasmine, This Inscrutable Englishman. Sir John D'Oyly (1774-1824). London: Cassell, 1999.

GRAHAM, Gerald S. Great Britain in the Indian Ocean: a study of maritime enterprise 1810-1850. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967 [see:Ê "The Rise and Fall of Trincomalee" pp. 305-328].

History of the Public Works Department, Ceylon 1796 to 1896 Vol.II. Compiled by P.M. Bingham. Colombo: Goverment Printer, 1922.
[See: Chapter 1. J.P. Lewis 'The Old Forts and Military Posts of Ceylon'. pp.1-36].

JAFFER, Amin. Furniture from British India and Ceylon : a catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum. London: V&AÊ Publications, 2001.

KARUNARATNE, Nihal, Kandy, Past and Present (1474-1998 A.D.). Colombo: Central Cultural Fund, Ministry of Religious & Cultural Affairs, 1999.

MILLS, L.A. Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932. London: Frank Cass, 1964. [orig. publ. 1933].

NELSON, William A. The Dutch Forts of Sri Lanka: the military monuments of Ceylon. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1984.

PIERIS, P. E. Tri Sinhala: the last phase, 1796-1815. Colombo: Colombo Apothecaries, 1939.

PIERIS, Ralph. Sinhalese Social Organization: The Kandyan Period. Colombo: Ceylon University Press, 1956.

POWELL, Geoffrey. The Kandyan Wars: the British Army in Ceylon 1803-1818. London: Leo Cooper, 1973.

ROBERTS, Norah, Galle As Quiet As Sleep. Galle: N. Roberts, 1993.

SCHRIKKER, Alicia. Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815. Leiden: Brill 2007.

de SILVA, Colvin R. Ceylon Under the British Occupation, 1795-1833. Colombo: Colombo Apothecaries' Co., 1953-1962. [2nd ed.]

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

de SILVA, R.K.
Early Prints of Ceylon (Sri Lanka): 1800-1900. London: Serendib Publications, 1985.

de SILVA, R.K. and BEUMER, W.G.M. Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796: A Comprehensive Work of Pictorial Reference with Selected Eye-witness Accounts. London: Serendib Publications, 1988.

Sri Lanka Department of Archaeology Report on the Joint Sri Lanka-Australia-Netherlands Galle Harbour Project 1996-1997. (eds.) Jeremy Green, Somasiri Devendra and Robert Parthesius. Freemantle: Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology' 1998 [Western Australian Maritime Museum Special Publication No. 4].

THOMAS, G.P. The History of Trincomalee. Colombo: Times of Ceylon, 1940.

VIMALANANDA, Tennakoon, The Great Rebellion of 1818: the story of the first war of independence and betrayal of the nation. Colombo: M.D. Gunasena, 1970. [Gunasena Historical Series V.5Ê Pt.1].

WAGENAAR, Lodewijk, Galle VOC-vestiging in Ceylon. Beschrijving van een koloiale samenleving aan de vooravond van de Singalese opstand tegen het Nederlandse gezag, 1760. Amsterdam: de Bataafsche Leeuw, 1994.

WICKREMESEKERA, Channa. Kandy at War: Indigenous Resistance to European Expansion in Sri Lanka, 1594-1818. New Delhi: Manohar, 2004.

Journal Articles:

COLIN-THOME, Percy, "Governor Van Angelbeek and the Capitulation of the Dutch Settlements in Ceylon to the British (1796)." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka Vol. 24 (1978-1979) pp. 20-48.

NEVILL, Hugh, "Notes on Military History of Trincomalie." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka Vol. XXXVIII 1993/1994 pp.35-126.

de SILVA, D.G.B., "Hugh Nevill's 'Notes on Military History of Trincomalie'". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka Vol. XXXVIII 1993/1994 pp.1-34.

SIVASUNDARAM, Sujit. "Tales of the Land: British Geography and Kandyan Resistance in Sri Lanka, c. 1803-1850."Modern Asian Studies Vol. 41 No. 5 September 2007 pp.925-965.

WICKREMERATNE, V.C. "The English East India Company and Society in the Maritime Provinces of Ceylon 1796-1802." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1971 No. 2 pp. 139-155.

WICKREMESEKERA, Channa, "Military Organisation in Pre-Modern Sri Lanka: The Army of the Kandyan Kings." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Volume XXVII Number 2 August 2004 pp.133-151

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