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Author : Robert Knox
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Download or read book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Knox
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Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1681 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Knox was travelling with his father in 1659 on the latter's journey homeward from his post with the British East India Company at Fort St. George when a storm obliged their ship to put into Cottier Bay, Ceylon. The two were detained as prisoners along with 14 others, and carried into the interior of the island. Knox's father died in 1661, but Knox himself remained a prisoner at large for over 19 years, supporting himself by knitting caps, lending out corn and rice, and hawking goods about the country. Though the rajah pressed him to enter his service, Knox resisted, and finally escaped to the Dutch settlement at Arippu on the north-west of the island. Reaching England in 1680, he entrusted the manuscript of this account to Robert Hooke, and enlisted in the East India Company, for further adventures in an already adventuresome life. These engravings include depictions of agricultural techniques, two native primates, customs and costumes and an execution being carried out by an elephant.
Author : Robert Knox
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120619272
Total Pages : 166 pages
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Download or read book Nineteen Years' Captivity in the Highlands of Ceylon, March 1660-October 1679 written by Robert Knox and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2004 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Knox
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Total Pages : 502 pages
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Download or read book An Historical Relation of Ceylon written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Parker
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Total Pages : 790 pages
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Download or read book Ancient Ceylon written by Henry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K M de Silva
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351182398
Total Pages : 800 pages
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Download or read book A History of Sri Lanka written by K M de Silva and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Lanka is an ancient civilization, shaped and thrust into the modern globalizing world by its colonial experience. With its own unique problems, many of them historical legacies, it is a nation trying to maintain a democratic, pluralistic state structure while struggling to come to terms with separatist aspirations. This is a complex story, and there is perhaps no better person to present it in reasoned, scholarly terms than K.M. de Silva, Sri Lanka’s most distinguished and prolific historian. A History of Sri Lanka, first published in 1981, has established itself as the standard work on the subject. This fully revised edition, in light of the most recent research, brings the story right up to the early years of the twenty-first century. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Sri Lanka’s development—from a classical Buddhist society and irrigation economy, to its emergence as a tropical colony producing some of the world’s most important cash crops, such as cinnamon, tea, rubber and coconut, and finally as an Asian democracy. It is a study of the political vicissitudes of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization and the successive phases of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule. The unfortunate consequences of becoming a centre of ethnic tension and Sri Lanka’s long-standing relationship with India are also discussed. Exhaustively researched and analytical, this book is an invaluable reference source for students of ancient, colonial and post-colonial societies, ethnic conflict and democratic transitions, as well as for all those who simply want to get a feel of the rich and varied texture of Sri Lanka’s long history.
Author : A. M. Philalethes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110804655X
Total Pages : 799 pages
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Download or read book The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV written by A. M. Philalethes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1817 book traces the history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the classical period to 1815.
Author : Robert Knox
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Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book An Historical Relation of Ceylon written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Knox
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120618466
Total Pages : 122 pages
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Download or read book Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies written by Robert Knox and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2004 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Knox
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781428036215
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies written by Robert Knox and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
