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Index
Cover
Title page
Contents
About the Author
Dedication
Maps
Abbreviations
A History of Sri Lanka
1: Colonizers and Settlers
2: The Anuradhapura Kingdom I
3: The Anuradhapura Kingdom II
4: The Anuradhapura Kingdom III
5: The Anuradhapura Kingdom IV
6: The Polonnaruva Kingdom
7: The Fragmentation of the Sri Lankan Polity
8: The Periphery Stakes a Claim
9: The Crisis of the Sixteenth Century
10: Portuguese Rule in the Maritime Regions, c. 1600–58
11: The Kandyan Kingdom at Bay, 1658–87
12: The Struggle for Mastery over Sri Lanka, c. 1680–1766
13: Trade and Agriculture Under the VOC
14: The VOC in Sri Lanka: The Last Phase, 1767–96
15: The Impact of Dutch Rule
16: Religion, Literature and the Arts in the Kandyan Kingdom
17: The English East India Company in Sri Lanka, 1796–1802
18: The Fall of the Kandyan Kingdom
19: Economic and Social Change in the Early Nineteenth Century, 1802–32
20: Crown Colony Government, 1802–32
21: An Era of Reform and Reconstruction, 1833–50
22: A Plantation Economy, 1850–1910
23: Peasant Agriculture, 1850–1910
24: The Consolidation of British Rule
25: Education and Social Change in the Late Nineteenth Century
26: Religion and the Rise of Nationalism, c. 1870–1900
27: Politics and Constitutional Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century
28: Political Change in the Early Twentieth Century
29: Elite Conflict and the Ceylon National Congress, 1921-28
30: Social and Economic Change in the Early Twentieth Century, 1910-28
31: The Donoughmore Commission and Its Recommendations, 1927-31
32: The Politics of the Transfer of Power: The First Phase, 1931-42
33: D.S. Senanayake and the Passage to Dominion Status, 1942–47
34: Social and Economic Change in the Donoughmore Era, 1931–47
35: Literature and the Arts: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
36: Sri Lanka Since Independence: The Dominance of the UNP, 1947–56
37: Linguistic Nationalism and a Socialist Experiment, 1956–1977
38: A Change of Regime, 1977–94
Epilogue: 1994 and After
Sri Lanka’s Rulers: A Chronological List
Further Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Preface and Acknowledgements
Copyright
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