Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History /
The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored...
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Querying the cosmopolitan in Sri Lankan and Indian Ocean history / Alan Strathern and Zoltán Biedermann
- 1. Archaeology and cosmpolitanism in early historic and medieval Sri Lanka / Robin Coningham, Mark Manuel, Christopher Davis and Prishanta Gunawardhana
- 2. 'Implict cosmopolitanism' and the commercial role of ancient Lanka / Rebecca R. Darley
- 3. A Pāli cosmopolis? Sri Lanka and the Theravāda Buddhist ecumene, c. 500-1500 / Tilman Frasch
- 4. Beautifully moral: cosmopolitan issues in medieval Pāli literary theory / Alastair Gornall and Justin Henry
- 5. Sinhala sandēśa poetry in a cosmopolitan context / Stephen C. Berkwitz
- 6. The local and the global: the multiple visual worlds of ivory carvers in early modern Sri Lanka / Sujatha Arundathi Meegama
- 7. Cosmopolitan converts: the politics of Lankan exile in the Portuguese Empire / Zoltán Biedermann
- 8. Between the Portuguese and the Nāyakas: the many faces of the Kandyan Kingdom, 1591-1765 / Gananath Obeyesekere
- 9. Through the lens of slavery: Dutch Sri Lanka in the eighteenth century / Alicia Schrikker and Kate K. Ekama
- 10. Cosmopolitanism and indigeneity in four violent years: the fall of the kingdom of Kandy and the Great Rebellion revisited / Sujit Sivasundaram
- 11. The digestion of the foreign in Lankan history, c. 500-1818 / Alan Strathern.