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Found 3 from your keywords: subject="Sri Lanka"
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Recovering From a Disaster; A study of The Relief And Reconstruction Process …
Øyhus OlavArne

On 26 December 2004 at 6.58 hours (Sri Lanka Time), a massive earthquake with its epicentre outside the coast of Sumatra generated a series of gigantic waves, tsunamis. At 8.35 hours the waves reached the eastern and southern coastline of Sri Lanka, crushing hundreds of villages and towns, killing and maiming tens of thousands of people within seconds. When the waves pulled back, and the ocean …

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The politics and poetics of authenticity : a cultural genealogy of Sinhala na…
Rambukwella, Harshana

What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. I…

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9781787351288
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xi, 161 p. ill;
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305.8914805493 POL H
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Rewriting Buddhism : Pali literature and monastic reform in Sri Lanka, 1157-1270
Gornall, Alastair

Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of po…

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9781787355156
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XIII, 269 p.
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891.37099549309021 GOM r