A history of Sri Lanka: K. M. de Silva, (London: C. Hurst and Company; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. xx + 603. $38.50)doi:10.1016/0305-7488(83)90290-6Allen G NobleUniversity of Akron USA
Also, the narrative regarding Lord Buddha making three unaided flying visits to Sri Lanka which is not feasible, is not tenable. This makes the early part of Mahavamsa text prone to be challenged. As for protohistory, Mahawamsa is largely silent. It does not say about the people who...
Located only a short distance off the southernmost shore of the Greater Indian subcontinent, the island of Sri Lanka has long been inhabited by various ethnic populations. Mainly comprising the Vedda, Sinhalese (Up- and Low-country) and Tamil (Sri Lankan and Indian); their history of settlements...
The official name of the nation is the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. In 1972, the national constitution discarded the name Ceylon and adopted the name of Sri Lanka. In Sinhala, the language of the majority, Sri means "blessed" and Lanka is the name of the island. The islan...
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Today, the Sinhalese make the largest ethno-cultural group in Sri Lanka, having a population of 15.17 million (74.9% of the total population)1. The Sinhalese make a unique population in the world as the only ethnic group that speaks Sinhala, a branch of the Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) lang...
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