Ceylon Under the British

Ceylon Under the British
Title Ceylon Under the British PDF eBook
Author G.C. Mendis
Publisher Asian Educational Services
Pages 222
Release 2005
Genre Sri Lanka
ISBN 9788120619302

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Covers the period, 1796-1948.

Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932

Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932
Title Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932 PDF eBook
Author Lennox A Mills
Publisher Routledge
Pages 321
Release 2012-11-12
Genre History
ISBN 1136262717

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Published in 1964, " Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932" is an important contribution to History.

Islanded

Islanded
Title Islanded PDF eBook
Author Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 381
Release 2013-08-05
Genre History
ISBN 022603836X

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How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.

Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815

Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815
Title Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815 PDF eBook
Author Alicia Schrikker
Publisher BRILL
Pages 289
Release 2007
Genre Social Science
ISBN 900415602X

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This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 1780 - 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.

Health Policy in Britain's Model Colony

Health Policy in Britain's Model Colony
Title Health Policy in Britain's Model Colony PDF eBook
Author Margaret Jones
Publisher Orient Blackswan
Pages 336
Release 2004
Genre Medical
ISBN 9788125027591

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Was Western medicine a positive benefit of colonialism or one of its agents of oppression? This question has prompted a vigorous historical and political debate and is explored here in the context of the 'model' British colony of Ceylon. In this study, Margaret Jones emphasises the need for both a broad perspective and a more complex analysis. Colonial medicine is critiqued not merelyu in the political and economic context of imperialism but also against the background of human needs and rights. Her research is underscored by a detailed analysis of public health measures and services in Ceylon. One of its key findings is the accommodation achieved between Western and indigenous medicine. Throughout this work, Jones provides nuanced readings of the categories of colonised and coloniser, as well as the concept of colonial medicine. Health Policy in Britain's Model Colony provides an understanding of historical trends while simultaneously avoiding generalisations that subsume events and actions. Written in a compelling and lucid style, it is a path-breaking contribution to the history of medicine.

Colonialism in Sri Lanka

Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Title Colonialism in Sri Lanka PDF eBook
Author Asoka Bandarage
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 420
Release 2019-05-20
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3110838648

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Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon

Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon
Title Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon PDF eBook
Author James S. Duncan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 264
Release 2020-06-09
Genre Science
ISBN 1000089827

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This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their “greatest gift.” The book argues that resistance can be understood as a form of negotiation to lessen oppressive colonial conditions, and that the cumulative impact caused continual adjustments to the criminal justice system, weighing it down and distorting it. The tactical use of rule of law is explored within the three bureaucracies: the police, the courts and the prisons. Policing was often “governed at a distance” due to fiscal constraints and economic priorities and the enforcement of law was often delegated to underpaid Ceylonese. Spaces of resistance opened up as Ceylon was largely left to manage its own affairs. Villagers, minor officials, as well as senior British government officials, alternately used or subverted the rule of law to achieve their own goals. In the courts, the imported system lacked political legitimacy and consequently the Ceylonese undermined it by embracing it with false cases and information, in the interests of achieving justice as they saw it. In the prisons, administrators developed numerous biopolitical techniques and medical experiments in order to punish prisoners’ bodies to their absolute lawful limit. This limit was one which prison officials, prisoners, and doctors negotiated continuously over the decades. The book argues that the struggles around rule of law can best be understood not in terms of a dualism of bureaucrats versus the public, but rather as a set of shifting alliances across permeable bureaucratic boundaries. It offers innovative perspectives, comparing the Ceylonese experiences to those of Britain and India, and where appropriate to other European colonies. This book will appeal to those interested in law, history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural and political geography.