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A Passage North is a 2021 novel written by Anuk Arudpragasam.The novel is set in Sri Lanka following the end of the Civil War. [1] It was first published on 13 July 2021 by Hogarth Press in the United States [2] and by Hamish Hamilton in India. [3]
National Library of Sri Lanka; Location: 14, Independence Avenue, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka: Type: Reference library: Established: 27 April 1990; 34 years ago () Reference to legal mandate: Ceylon National Library Services Board Act No.17 of 1970: Collection
Kumari Jayawardena (Sinhala: කුමාරි ජයවර්ධන; born 1931) is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots of Western feminism.
The library was built in 1933 and is Sri Lanka's second main public Library, only rivalled by Colombo Public Library [2] During the early 1980s, it was one of the biggest libraries in Asia, containing over 97,000 books and manuscripts. [3] [4] In 1981, it was burned down in a deliberate mob attack. [5] Over a million books were burned in the ...
History books about Sri Lanka (1 C, 6 P) N. Books about Sri Lankan natural history (4 P) Novels set in Sri Lanka (29 P) P. Books about politics of Sri Lanka (3 P)
In 1978 Jayewardene introduced a new constitution making Sri Lanka a presidential 'Democratic Socialist' republic, with himself as executive President The Constitution of Sri Lanka: Chapter I – The People, the State and Sovereignty. In 1980 he crushed a general strike by the trade-union movement, jailing its leaders.
A History of Sri Lanka. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications. ISBN 9789558095928. McGilvray, Dennis (1982). Mukkuvar Vannimai: Tamil Caste and Matriclan Ideology in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, (Caste Ideology and Interaction). Cambridge University Press. Kartithigesu, Sivathamby (1995). Sri Lankan Tamil society and politics. New Century Book House. p ...
The Buddha's Visits to Sri Lanka: This material recounts three legendary visits by the Buddha to the island of Sri Lanka. These stories describe the Buddha subduing or driving away the Yakkhas (Yakshas) and Nagas that were inhabiting the island and delivering a prophecy that Sri Lanka will become an important Buddhist center.