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Chapters: List of Beaches in Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan State Sponsored Colonisation Schemes, Gulf of Mannar, Yapahuwa, Dhowa Rock Temple, Scottish Place Names in Sri Lanka, Puthukkudiyiruppu, Sri Lanka Time, Karaitivu, Place Names in Sri Lanka With an English Name, Casuarina Beach. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Geography of Sri Lanka -More than 85% of Sri Lanka's surface lies on Precambrian strata, some of it dating back 2 billion years. The granulite facies rocks of the Highland Series (gneisses, sillimanite-graphite gneisses, quartzite, marbles, and some charnokites) make up most of the island and the amphibolite facies gneisses, granites, and granitic gneisses of the Vinjayan Series occur in the eastern and southeastern lowlands. Jurassic sediments are present in very small areas near the western coast and Miocene limestones underlie the northwestern part of the country and extend south in a relatively narrow belt along the west coast.The metamorphic rock surface was created by the transformation of ancient sediments under intense heat and pressure during mountain-building processes. The theory of plate tectonics suggests that these rocks and related rocks forming most of south India were part of a single southern landmass called Gondwanaland. Beginning about 200 million years ago, forces within the Earth's mantle began to separate the lands of the Southern Hemisphere, and a crustal plate supporting both India and Sri Lanka moved toward the northeast. About 45 million years ago, the Indian plate collided with the Asian landmass, raising the Himalayas in northern India, and continuing to advance slowly to the present time. Sri Lanka experiences few earthquakes or major volcanic events because it rides on the center of the plate. The island con...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=27412 ... Read more

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Chapters: Geography of Bhutan, Geography of India, Geography of Nepal, Geography of Pakistan, Geography of Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Bengal, Aksai Chin, Pashtunistan, Jammu and Kashmir, History of Kashmir, Kashmiri Pandit, Capital of India, North Karnataka, Kashmir Conflict, Timeline of the Kashmir Conflict, Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, Malwa, Sheikh Abdullah, Ittihadul Muslimeen, Greater India, Shekhawati, Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, Pakistan and State Terrorism, Radcliffe Line, Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Leh, Rajatarangini, Pakistan-Administered Kashmir, Sudhun, Cartography of India, Ayub Thakur, List of Renamed Indian Public Places, Karakoram Highway, 2001-2002 India-pakistan Standoff, Pakhtunkhwa, Indian Standard Time, Trans-Karakoram Tract, Manasbal Lake, Siachen Glacier, Geography of South India, Balawaristan, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, Chumb, List of Extreme Points of India, Geology of Nepal, Zogam, Sumgal, South Tibet, Balochistan, Tirah, List of Beaches in Sri Lanka, Jammu Kashmir Democratic Liberation Party, Kashmiriyat, Sri Lankan State Sponsored Colonisation Schemes, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Nagarkot, Dolpo, Al-Badr, Farah Pandith, List of Capitals in East, South, and Southeast Asia, List of Indian States and Territories by Highest Point, Cow Belt, List of Ecoregions in India, Forestry in Bhutan, All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, Kashmir Committee, Kashmiri Cuisine, Beel, Kanger, Mijuredada, Neelum River, Daulat Beg Oldi, Harkat-Ul-Mujahideen, Jammu ... Read more

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Sri Lanka. Names of Sri Lanka, List of country name etymologies, Geography of Sri Lanka, Environment of Sri Lanka, History of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Civil War, Politics of Sri Lanka, Constitution of Sri Lanka, Foreign relations of Sri Lanka, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, Economy of Sri Lanka, Tourism in Sri Lanka, Provinces of Sri Lanka, List of districts of Sri Lanka, Divisional Secretariats of Sri Lanka, List of cities in Sri Lanka, Demographics of Sri Lanka, South Asian ethnic groups, Languages of Sri Lanka, Religion in Sri Lanka, Education in Sri Lanka, List of schools in Sri Lanka, List of universities in Sri Lanka, Transport in Sri Lanka, Human rights in Sri Lanka, Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Hinduism in Sri Lanka, Islam in Sri Lanka, Culture of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan festivals, Music of Sri Lanka, Tea production in Sri Lanka, Dances of Sri Lanka, Cinema of Sri Lanka, Media of Sri Lanka, List of television networks in Sri Lanka,Cricket in Sri Lanka, Rugby union in Sri Lanka, Outline of Sri Lanka. ... Read more

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Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka brings together essays on the theme of spatial politics of Sri Lanka. Space is an important factor in the ongoing ethnic conflict fuelling Sri Lanka's continuing civil war. Claims and contestations over the integrity of island space and the control of northern and eastern territories are central to the violently contested dispute. The editors view space from a different perspective. They argue that space is important through a number of registers less frequently invoked in dominant approaches to understanding postcolonial Sri Lankan nationhood, identity and difference. The book examines and historicizes the role of spatialities often occluded within the debates on Sri Lankan politics such as, cities and built-space, diasporic productions and imaginations, commodity cultures and their concordant networks, knowledge spaces and 'foreign' intervention, landscape and sacred space, as well as geographical knowledge.

Situated at the intersection of human geography and postcolonial studies, the book signals the ways that postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked and how their intersections evoke the social, spatial and political effects of enduring colonial discourse and representation. In developing its argument, Spatialising Politics also gestures towards alternative spatial imaginations, possibilities and representations, at a time when spaces for alternative discourses on Sri Lankan politics are fast shrinking. ... Read more

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Contains the contributions of 11 German scientists highlighting Sri Lanka's archaeology and history, geography and climate, and tourism and economics. ... Read more

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Sir Lanka's topography, history, society, economy, and government are concisely described, augmented by photographs, maps, charts, and captions. ... Read more

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This article analyses ethnic antagonisms and related political discourses in Sri Lanka after the ceasefire agreement in 2002 using the Derridean notion of vouyou (rogue) and Agamben's concept of state of exception. In all three ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, we can observe discourses on ethnicity, space and territories that create fictions of ethnic homogeneity and purity based on a social construct of the ethnic other as ''rogue''. Roguishness is linked with issues of territorial control, political justice and virtual or real ''rogue states''. It is also pertinent in the justification of violence and the differentiation of just(ified) and unjust(ified), roguish violence and the rivalry over sovereignty. I will argue that these ''rogue others'' are needed to legitimize a state of exception where force stands out-of-the-law, but needs to be justified as being within the law, since the state of exception is part of a project leading to an ideal state-to-come. This ideal state-to-come to is to be a ''pure'' state-to-come, in the form of the ''pure'' Singhalese-Buddhist state, the Tamil homeland, and more recently, the Muslim homeland as expression of distinct Muslimness. Derrida argues that identifying ''rogues'' is rationalizing and covering deeper rooted fears. In Sri Lanka, the rogue rationale reveals deeper lying anxieties that link security with ethnic homogeneity and the ethnic self and insecurity with multi-ethnicity and the ethnic other. The ethnic other is a force preventing the (ethnically) pure state-to-come to come into being. ... Read more

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Northern Province, Sri Lanka. History of Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Civil War, Sri Lankan local government elections, 2009, Geography of Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Natural history of Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Towns in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Government of Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Tamil Eelam, Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism, Language demographics of Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Religion in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Hinduism in Sri Lanka, Roman Catholicism in Sri Lanka, Islam in Sri Lanka, Buddhism in Sri Lanka, University of Jaffna, Education in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Transportation in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Tourism of Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Culture of Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Tamil people, Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, Festivals in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Cinema of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Tamil cinema, Media in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, North Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, Eelam. ... Read more

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Sri Lanka, a small but beautiful island country in Southeast Asia, has long endured a bitter civil war between its Sinhalese majority and the minority Tamils.Today, it is also famous as a victim of a massive 2004 tsunami.This selection explores this unique nation's history, people, and culture. (20000101) ... Read more

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This collection examines how religion and politics have intersected in Sri Lanka over the years, discussing several periods of Ceylonese history. It provides coverage of the Anuradhapura period and explores Theravada Buddhism in the political life of modern Sri Lanka. ... Read more

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Describes the geography, history, culture, industry, and people of Sri Lanka. ... Read more

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In this book, Nalani Hennayake unravels how the development experience of a postcolonial society is deeply embedded in a complex historical relationship between culture and politics by focusing on the country of Sri Lanka. ... Read more

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During the Gulf crisis in the summer of 1990, the extent of the migrant worker phenomenon in the Middle East was highlighted by the plight of tens of thousands of refugees from Kuwait and Iraq - men, women and even children, mainly from North Africa and South and South-East Asia. The harrowing images and reports spreading across the world and the hastily constructed refugee camps demonstrated the vulnerability of the economic and social position of this floating labour force. This is a comprehensive study of the demographic, social and economic aspects of labour migration from Sri Lanka to the Middle East using both demographic and anthropological research methods. The authors have mainly based their work on labour migration from Sri Lanka as labour migration from that country shows a number of particularly interesting characteristics. The extent of Sri Lankan labour migration is much greater than that seen in other South and South-East Asian countries. l.3% of the Sri Lankan population work in the Middle East, of which 70% are women, working mainly in the domestic sector. ... Read more