Journal articles: 'Library science Sri Lanka History'

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Fernando, Tissa, and Chandra Richard De Silva. "Sri Lanka: A History." Pacific Affairs 61, no. 1 (1988): 186. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2758116.

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Moxon-Browne, Edward. "Sri Lanka: history and roots of conflict." International Affairs 68, no. 1 (January 1992): 200–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2620565.

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Ahsan, Syed Badrul. "The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics." Asian Affairs 44, no. 2 (July 2013): 313–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2013.795305.

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Krysl, Marilyn. "Suite for Kokodicholai, Sri Lanka." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 20, sup001 (January 1997): 195–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856409708723310.

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Vorkunova, Olga A. "Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka." Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost, no. 1 (2021): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s086919080013556-8.

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Seneviratne, H. L., and Jonathan Spencer. "Sri Lanka: History and the Roots of Conflict." Man 27, no. 3 (September 1992): 686. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2803980.

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Gamage, Premila, and Edward F. Halpin. "E‐Sri Lanka: bridging the digital divide." Electronic Library 25, no. 6 (November 20, 2007): 693–710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02640470710837128.

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M. Nazeeruddin and M.Jafarullah Baig. "Sri Lanka’s Economic crisis- An Eye Opener." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 7, no. 4 (April 15, 2022): 01–02. http://dx.doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2022.v07.i04.001.

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The Island country, Sri Lanka exports largely textiles, garments, rubber, tea, and coconut products and imports consumer goods, especially crude oil, coal and other petroleum products. For the first time in the history of Sri Lanka the worst economic crisis has been witnessed. The present government is grossly responsible for this kind of economic mess in Sri Lanka. People from all walks of life in Sri Lanka are struggling for want of sufficient money, fuel and food. This kind of misgovernance results in cascading effect which paralyses all the crucial and vital sectors of the economy.

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Gunatilake, Mangala. "History and development of laboratory animal science in Sri Lanka." Animal Models and Experimental Medicine 1, no. 1 (March 2018): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ame2.12003.

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Abeyratne, Rehan. "Global constitutionalism reconfigured through a regional lens." Global Constitutionalism 10, no. 2 (July 2021): 331–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2045381720000234.

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AbstractThis article examines how global constitutional norms are received and reconfigured by South Asian judiciaries. It makes two central claims. First, it argues that India, as the largest state in the region, acts as a filter through which Bangladesh and Sri Lanka receive both structural and rights-based global norms. Second, it contends that Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan courts adopt distinct approaches to the Indian case law. While Bangladesh mostly converges with the Indian jurisprudence, Sri Lanka engages with it but does not wholly adopt its conclusions. The article puts forward a preliminary explanation for these distinct approaches based on differences in the constitutional structures and political histories of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka vis-à-vis India.

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Whitaker, Mark P. "Abiding by Sri Lanka Qadri Ismail's way." Religion 38, no. 2 (June 2008): 181–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.religion.2008.05.002.

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Rogers, John D. "The 1866 Grain Riots in Sri Lanka." Comparative Studies in Society and History 29, no. 3 (July 1987): 495–513. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500014699.

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Until fairly recently, grain riots were viewed as spontaneous reactions of the poor to hunger, not worthy of detailed analysis. Over the past twenty years, partially as a result of pioneering studies by George Rudé and Edward Thompson with reference to France and Britain, a considerable body of scholarly writing about these disturbances has appeared. Consistent cross-cultural patterns have emerged from this research. Grain riots were not necessarily a product of hunger, although they were a facet of struggles over the control of food. They have normally taken one of two forms. One was the market riot, where the crowd protested against the price or lack of availability of grain. Such disturbances often commenced with the offer to buy grain at a “just” or “customary” price. If this demand was not met, more drastic action was taken. Sometimes rioters seized grain and sold it to the crowd for a just price, and then turned the receipts over to the owners of the grain. More often grain was strewn about, destroyed, or stolen. The second main form of grain riot was the blockade. In times of shortage, people prevented the export of grain from a town or district because they believed that merchants and landlords should not benefit from scarcity and that such exports would drive up the price locally. Sometimes retributive action accompanied or followed both types of protest, meting out punishment to traders, landlords, or others who were perceived as wrongly profiting from food shortages. Such action usually took the form of wholesale looting. In general, grain rioters avoided serious violence.

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Bishku, Michael B. "Sri Lanka and the Middle East." Middle Eastern Studies 56, no. 1 (September 6, 2019): 116–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2019.1646250.

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Gandhi, Kajal. "Issue of Srilankans – An Overview." Trends in Banking, Accounting and Business 1, no. 1 (August 1, 2022): 43–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.46632/tbab/1/1/9.

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The crisis is said to have begun due to multiple compounding factors like tax cuts, money creation, and a nation-wide policy to shift to organic or biological farming, the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, and the impact of the COVID19 pandemic in Sri Lanka. In Jan 2021, the Sri Lankan Government declared officially that the country was hit by the worst economic crisis in its 73year history. On March 18, 2022 India extended a USD 1 billion line of credit to Sri Lanka on Thursday to help the country deal with the economic crisis

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LIYANARATNE, JINADASA. "Some Sri Lankan medical manuscripts of importance for the history of Sout Asian traditional medicine." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 64, no. 3 (October 2001): 392–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x01000234.

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This paper is a philological study of twelve Sri Lankan medical manuscripts preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Cambridge University Library. It shows the impact of Buddhism on the development of traditional medicine in South Asia and the important role played by South Indian Vaidyas in the propagation of medical knowledge in Sri Lanka. Those Vaidyas appear to have been well versed in Siddha medicine and proficient in both Sinhala and Tamil languages. Only the historical and cultural aspects revealed in these documents are dealt with here. The therapeutic aspect is no less important in view of the large number of medicinal prescriptions, some of which are said to be of proven efficacy. The material presented may be of interest to students of the history of medicine and medical anthropology.

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Uragoda, C. G. "Baron Munchausen's Fantastic Adventure in Sri Lanka." Journal of Medical Biography 8, no. 1 (February 2000): 49–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096777200000800110.

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Hein, Patrick. "Book Review: Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History." Political Studies Review 14, no. 1 (February 2016): 138–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478929915609475m.

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STRATHERN, ALAN. "Sri Lanka in the Long Early Modern Period: Its Place in a Comparative Theory of Second Millennium Eurasian History." Modern Asian Studies 43, no. 4 (July 2009): 815–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x07003447.

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AbstractThis paper explores how Sri Lanka might fit into Victor Lieberman's theory of Eurasian history. Lieberman's work to date has focused on the ‘protected rimlands’ which he sees as sharing the same historical path from a milieu of warring little kingdoms to increasingly large, solid states. But what happens in a land, such as Sri Lanka, which can be considered ‘protected’ before 1500, and ‘unprotected’ thereafter? Political integration and boundaries are first discussed, followed by ethnic and historical awareness before 1500. The third section sketches the chronological development of Buddhism before 1500, while the fourth considers the impact of the European interruption, and the fifth briefly looks at the results for 1600–1800. Along the way, some problems with applying the notion of ‘early modernity’ to Sri Lanka are disclosed.

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Edgington, John A. "Three botanical watercolours by Richard Bradley (c.1688–1732) including of coffee and cinnamon." Archives of Natural History 49, no. 2 (October 2022): 341–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0795.

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Three watercolour paintings by Richard Bradley, depicting plants from the East Indies and southern Africa, are described. The images of Coffea arabica (coffee) (Rubiaceae), Cinnamomum verum (cinnamon) (Lauraceae) and a southern African succulent, Cylindrophyllum calamiforme (Aizoaceae), are bound into contemporary volumes now held at the British Library, London. Also included in the cinnamon watercolour are two images of Sri Lankan butterflies. This paper sets these watercolours in the context of Bradley’s other paintings and colour illustrations. These three images, hitherto unpublished, were probably painted during Bradley’s visit to Holland in 1714.

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Witharana, Dileepa. "Ravana’s Sri Lanka: Redefining the Sinhala Nation?" South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42, no. 4 (July 4, 2019): 781–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1632560.

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Edirisuriya, P. "Determinants of military expenditure in Sri Lanka*." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 20, sup001 (January 1997): 255–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856409708723314.

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Marsoof, Althaf. "The Disposal of COVID-19 Dead Bodies: Impact of Sri Lanka’s Response on Fundamental Rights." Journal of Human Rights Practice 13, no. 3 (November 1, 2021): 669–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huab030.

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Abstract In early 2020, the Government of Sri Lanka decided that all bodies of individuals who had (or were suspected to have) died of COVID-19 should be disposed of by cremation alone. Although this decision appears to be neutral and does not give rise to de jure discrimination, as a matter of fact, it has significantly impacted the religious rights of the Muslim community in Sri Lanka. This is because they firmly believe in the need to bury the dead in a dignified and decent manner—cremation being regarded as a repugnant practice amounting to a desecration of the human body. As such, the Sri Lankan Government’s decision to adopt a cremation-only policy interfered with the right of all Sri Lankan Muslims to manifest their religion or belief as guaranteed by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. Despite there being no scientific evidence to suggest that the burial of COVID-19 victims could give rise to contamination of the surroundings and thereby cause the spread of the virus, the Government of Sri Lanka continued with the policy for almost a whole year. Thereafter, due to international pressure, the Sri Lankan Government decided to allow burials but in a very restrictive manner. The objective of this article is to consider the extent to which the aforementioned decisions of the Sri Lankan Government are consistent with the fundamental rights framework of the country’s Constitution.

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Cabral, Udaya Prasad, and Pascal Querner. "Four Step Strategy for Implementing IPM in Libraries in Sri Lanka." Restaurator. International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material 38, no. 4 (December 20, 2017): 383–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/res-2017-0011.

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AbstractLibraries in tropical Sri Lanka have been suffering from insect infestation for a long time. Library insect pests are observed frequently and feed on books, paper, wooden shelves or building structures and make irreversible damages to the objects. Most librarians in the country struggle with this situation and are looking for long-term solutions to protect their objects. This paper illustrates a simple strategy, which could be applied in many libraries in Sri Lanka or other countries to eradicate pests. This strategy has been composed in the light of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). It consists of four steps: “Monitoring” is a regular check, which indicates the threat to the library from pests. During the second step, “identification”, the specific pests active are detected. “Treatment” can be divided in two subcategories: “immediate treatments” focusing on nonchemical and traditional methods to eradicate pests and “late treatment” denotes conservation treatment carried out in the paper laboratory. The final step is “prevention”, which includes all activities that help blocking and repelling pests from entering the library. This paper illustrates this four-step strategy with two examples for successful control of insect and fungal outbreak and can be applied in other libraries with similar problems and a low budget.

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Wijetunge, Pradeepa, and Jonathan Willson. "A descriptive survey of library and information science education personnel in Sri Lanka." Asian Libraries 7, no. 11 (November 1998): 315–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10176749810245546.

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Sumanapala, Amila, and Tharindu Ranasinghe. "First record of Lestes concinnus (Zygoptera: Lestidae) from Sri Lanka with observations on its natural history." Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 65, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 129–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/travaux.65.e74234.

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Lestes concinnus is a widespread species in tropical Asia and Oceania. It is a species known to have variable colour patterns ranging between pale and dark phenotypes which have earlier been recognized as distinct species. Lestes concinnus has never been known from Sri Lanka before. We report observations of both phenotypes of the species and intermediate morphs of Lestes concinnus from coastal habitats with dry reed patches in the northern part of the country, adding it to the Odonata fauna of Sri Lanka. With multiple field observations examined, we also provide comments on its identification and natural history in the country.

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P.D.S., Greshan,, and Kithsiri, V.D. "Perspectives of the Farmers on Collection of Vegetables at Dambulla Dedicated Economic Center in Sri Lanka." International Journal of Scientific Research and Management 9, no. 12 (January 1, 2022): 2826–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsrm/v9i12.em11.

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Agricultural products move through several channels before reaching the final consumers. The collection process of vegetable must be effective and efficient to avoid losses in the supply chain of vegetables. The Dambulla Dedicated Economic Center (DDEC) is considered as the main hub of vegetable and fruit distribution in Sri Lanka. The objective of this research is to analyze the role of DDEC in collection of vegetables in Sri Lanka and explore whether the center meets the best practices of vegetable collection. Transportation, packing and packaging, role of middlemen, and training and knowledge on vegetable collection process were reviewed. Data were collected using a semi structured questioner from 70 farmers linked to the DDEC. High level of quality degradation, poor packing and packaging, lack of knowledge and training on collection, and inefficient role of middlemen were identified as the main issues related to the vegetable collection process of DDEC in Sri Lanka.

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Jayasinghe, Kusum Priyanath. "Online Library System to Dr. Richard Pathirana Public Library in Galle area in Sri Lanka." Scientific Research Journal 8, no. 8 (August 25, 2020): 23–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31364/scirj/v8.i8.2020.p0820790.

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HÖGLUND, KRISTINE. "Violence and the Peace Process in Sri Lanka." Civil Wars 7, no. 2 (June 2005): 156–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698280500422843.

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Williams, Trevor I. "Science and technology in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka." Endeavour 15, no. 3 (January 1991): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0160-9327(91)90158-8.

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Gamage, Siri. "Democracy in Sri Lanka: past, present and future." Asian Studies Review 17, no. 1 (July 1993): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03147539308712906.

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Aravinthon, Suhanya. "The Tradition of Othuvar in Temples - A Cultural Musicology study based on the Saiva temple tradition in Sri Lanka." Indian Journal of Tamil 3, no. 1 (February 3, 2022): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.54392/ijot2214.

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The early Siva community identify the Singing is the easiest way to pray to God and reaching his salvation. From the earliest times in the Saiva tradition, the Nayanmars and Alvars who descended from Karaikkalammaiyar, followed this way and dissolved with the power of God not only this, with the help of history of Saiva we can understand, these Nayanmars and Alvars were not only practice this style of praying in their own life, as well as they insist the community to follow this method of their religious life also. In the Saiva tradition, those who greet the Lord with music are known by the special name of 'Oduvars'. This Oduvar tradition, which originated from Karaikkalammaiyar in the history of Sivasim, has continued in Hindu temples in Sri Lanka up to now. As far as Sri Lanka is concerned, history has maintained a close relationship with Tamil Nadu for a long time in culture, religion, customs and many other social contexts. It would not be an exaggeration to say that even though Sri Lanka has been under foreign rule for a long time, it is the work of these readers to preserve Sivasim and Tamilism and pass it on to the next generation. This article describes the work done by the Oduvars in Jaffna, the place where Saivism flourished in Sri Lanka.

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Brown, Bernardo E. "Vocation for travel. Catholic priestly training in Sri Lanka." Religion 50, no. 4 (August 30, 2020): 636–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2020.1810818.

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Yasmin Fischer, Silke K. "Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka." Religion 41, no. 3 (September 2011): 489–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2011.584172.

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Lambek, Michael. "Ecstasy and Agony in Sri Lanka. A Review Article." Comparative Studies in Society and History 27, no. 2 (April 1985): 291–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500011373.

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Roberts, Michael. "The burden of history: Obstacles to power sharing in Sri Lanka." Contributions to Indian Sociology 35, no. 1 (February 2001): 65–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/006996670103500104.

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Samaratunge, Ramanie, and Chris Nyland. "Globalisation and Social Protection Reforms in Sri Lanka." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 29, no. 3 (December 2006): 415–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856400601031997.

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Bandaralage, Jayatilleke S. "The Erosion of Social Capital in Sri Lanka." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 32, no. 1 (March 25, 2009): 110–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856400802709300.

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van der Poorten, George, and Nancy van der Poorten. "Cephrenes trichopepla (Lower, 1908): An invasive Australian species, recorded in Sri Lanka for the first time with notes on its biology, life history and distribution (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)." Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 156, no. 1 (2013): 95–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22119434-00002021.

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Cephrenes trichopepla (Lower, 1908), an invasive Australian species, was recorded for the first time in Sri Lanka in July 2009 but it is likely to have been in the island much longer. Since then, it has been recorded in several locations in the Northwestern province, near Colombo in the Western province, and in Kandy in the Central province. Recorded larval food plants are coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, a widely cultivated plantation crop, and a species of Livistona, a cultivated garden palm (Arecaceae). The immature stages and behavior in Sri Lanka are documented for the first time.

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Sumanapala, Amila Prasanna. "Macromia weerakooni sp. nov. (Odonata: Anisoptera: Macromiidae), a new dragonfly species from Sri Lanka." International Journal of Odonatology 24 (January 1, 2021): 169–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.23797/2159-6719_24_13.

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The genus Macromia is represented in Sri Lanka by two endemic species. In this paper a third presumed endemic species is described based on a single male specimen collected at Kirikitta, Weliweriya, Western Province in the low country wet zone of the country. Macromia weerakooni sp. nov. differs from its congeners in Sri Lanka by having turquoise blue eyes, an entirely black labrum, a short yellow ante-humeral stripe, an interrupted yellow stripe on the anterior margin of metepisternum anddifferences in the secondary genitalia and anal appendages. As this is the only record of the species knowledge of its natural history and distribution is limited. This discovery highlights the need for further systematic surveys of Odonata in Sri Lanka using sampling methods suitable for the detection of elusive species.

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Mangla, P. B. "Library & Information Science education in South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka." Education for Information 12, no. 4 (October 1, 1994): 399–427. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/efi-1994-12402.

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Biju, S. D., Sonali Garg, Stephen Mahony, Nayana Wijayathilaka, Gayani Senevirathne, and Madhava Meegaskumbura. "DNA barcoding, phylogeny and systematics of Golden-backed frogs (Hylarana, Ranidae) of the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot, with the description of seven new species." Contributions to Zoology 83, no. 4 (October 29, 2014): 269—S4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08304004.

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A systematic revision of the genus Hylarana in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot is presented. Species delineation in Hylarana is complicated due to a lack of distinct colour differences or striking morphological characters, leading to potential misidentification. We conducted extensive surveys throughout the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot and performed multiple gene (16S, COI and Cytb) barcoding using 103 samples collected from cultivated land and natural habitats. Genetic distance comparisons and Neighbor Joining trees indicated the presence of at least 14 candidate species in the region, supported by taxa groupings for all three genetic markers. Utilising a combination of molecular and morphological data, we describe seven new species, doubling the number of Hylarana species previously known from this region. We further demonstrate that H. temporalis, which was originally described from Sri Lanka, was misidentified with the Western Ghats endemic species for nearly 100 years. Conversely, H. aurantiaca was originally described from the Western Ghats and misidentified in Sri Lanka. Our study confirms that the distribution of H. temporalis is restricted to Sri Lanka, while H. aurantiaca is endemic to the Western Ghats, and that there are no shared Hylarana species between the two regions. Hylarana flavescens, H. intermedius and H. montanus, previously considered synonyms of H. temporalis are confirmed as valid species. Hylarana bhagmandlensis is removed from the synonymy of H. aurantiaca and placed as a junior subjective synonym of H. montanus. To establish nomenclatural stability, H. flavescens, H. malabarica and H. temporalis are lectotypified and H. intermedius is neotypified. Detailed descriptions, diagnosis, morphological and genetic comparisons, illustrations and data on distribution and natural history are provided for all species. Phylogenetic analyses based on three mitochondrial markers (16S, COI and Cytb) and a fragment of the nuclear Rag1 gene, show complete endemism of the Western Ghats-Sri Lankan species. Four major groups in this region are identified as: 1 — the Hylarana aurantiaca group, endemic to the Western Ghats; 2 — the Hylarana flavescens group, endemic to the Western Ghats; 3 — the Hylarana temporalis group, endemic to Sri Lanka; and 4 — the Hylarana malabarica group from Sri Lanka and India. The discovery of numerous morphologically cryptic Hylarana species in this region further emphasizes the benefits of utilizing an integrative taxonomic approach for uncovering hidden diversity and highlighting local endemism in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot.

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Moore, Mick. "Economic Liberalization versus Political Pluralism in Sri Lanka?" Modern Asian Studies 24, no. 2 (May 1990): 341–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00010350.

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Is there a positive symbiosis between the liberal economy and the liberal polity? From the time the question became meaningful, mainstream Western social theory and doctrine has tended to give a positive answer. It has generally been possible convincingly to argue an intrinsic causal connection between the dispersal of economic (and thus political) power inherent in the competitive market economy and the pluralism which is central to all definitions of the liberal polity. At a ‘broad-brush’ level the historical evidence is supportive. There is a strong empirical association between liberal democracy and (successful) capitalist market systems. While there are a number of quite plausible arguments indicating some potential deep and long-term causal connections between capitalism/the market economy and political unfreedom, the balance of long term historical evidence appears to support orthodoxy.

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Spencer, Jonathan. "Collective Violence and Everyday Practice in Sri Lanka." Modern Asian Studies 24, no. 3 (July 1990): 603–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00010489.

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In July 1983 communal violence in the southern towns of Sri Lanka left between 300 and 3,000 people dead, nearly all of them members of the minority Tamil population. While such a disturbing manifestation of social pathology would seem to demand a response from concerned social scientists, there are special difficulties in confronting such events. Dominant trends in the historical study of popular disturbance, for example the concern to recover the rationality and dignity of participants in food riots (Thompson 1971), or the current interest in manifestations of ‘resistance’, may look altogether inappropriate in this context. Explanation can all too often look like apologetic, and this may explain why much of the existing writing on communal violence in South Asia deals with virtually everything except the violence itself. One recent study in Sri Lanka, Bruce Kapferer's Legends of People, Myths of State (Kapferer 1988), has recently tackled this question head on, arguing that there is a clear link between collective violence in Sri Lanka and what the author describes as a ‘logic of being in the world’, or ‘ontology’ to be found in everyday Sinhala life. While Kapferer has earned our gratitude for even raising the issue of the connection between collective violence and everyday life, his specific argument, as I shall show below, is based on a limited reading of the available evidence.

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Moore, Mick. "Thoroughly Modern Revolutionaries: The JVP in Sri Lanka." Modern Asian Studies 27, no. 3 (July 1993): 593–642. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00010908.

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The JVP (Janatha Vikmuthi Peramuna—the People's Liberation Front) first came to the attention of the world outside Sri Lanka when it launched an abortive insurrection in 1971. In 1987, the JVP made another bid to come to power by force of arms. The insurrection of 1987–1989 was better-prepared and more deeply-rooted than that of 1971; the human costs and societal consequences of its extirpation were correspondingly greater. Although the JVP came close to achieving state power both in late 1988 and mid-1989, it was thereafter destroyed very rapidly.

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Pain, Adam. "Agricultural Research in Sri Lanka: An Historical Account." Modern Asian Studies 20, no. 4 (October 1986): 755–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00013718.

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An underlying premise of much of the comment on developing countries' agricultural research organizations and capabilities, has been that they are weak, and have been unsuccessful in generating new technologies and meeting farmers' needs. Indeed, one of the very justifications for the setting up of the series of international research institutes, such as the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) was that national research programmes were seen to lack sufficient strength and organization to be able to respond to the urgent needs of food production that were identified in the 1960s. It was argued that a primary role of the International Centres would be to support and develop such national research programmes both through training and the provision of new plant varieties and technologies, and that the building up of local research capability in developing countries would come only after the International Research Centres had developed and transferred the new technologies.

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Ruwanpura, Kanchana N. "No war, no peace…and Sri Lanka simmers." Political Geography 29, no. 7 (September 2010): 404–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.04.001.

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Perera, Sonali. "Between politics and ethics: lessons from contemporary Sri Lanka." Postcolonial Studies 10, no. 3 (September 2007): 333–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790701488221.

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BULLION, ALAN. "Civil Society and the Peace Process in Sri Lanka." Civil Wars 7, no. 2 (June 2005): 117–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698280500422751.

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Bibile, Nayana. "JOHN CLIFFORD HOLT (ed.) The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics." Asian Studies Review 37, no. 1 (March 2013): 110–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2013.767168.

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Wijayawardena, Kanchana, Nilupama Wijewardena, and Ramanie Samaratunge. "Compromising gender identities." Information Technology & People 30, no. 2 (June 5, 2017): 246–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-01-2016-0012.

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Purpose Given the limited research on women in information technology (IT) sectors in emerging economies and the importance of understanding their experiences working in highly gendered IT firms, the purpose of this paper is to examine the specific gendered strategies used by women engineers to stay in gender-atypical IT firms in Sri Lanka using job embeddedness as a theoretical lens. Design/methodology/approach Data collection was done through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions on a sample of 14 women engineers employed in five leading IT firms in Sri Lanka. Findings Respondents perceived the work role expectations in the Sri Lankan IT industry as masculine. Respondents compromised their own gender identities to engage in four distinct strategies to link and fit with the prevailing work role expectations. “Using a hybrid style” and “being passive and neutral” were respondents’ link strategies, while “adopting masculine traits” and “demonstrating self-confidence” related to their fit strategies. Research limitations/implications Men and women who aspire to enter the IT sector need to be pre-prepared and educated about the characteristics of IT cultures and prevailing gender norms along with the subject knowledge. Managers of IT firms need to create positive work environments for their women employees that aid them to fit and link with their workplaces. Originality/value The study provides a deeper understanding of how women manage gender-related issues within gender-atypical IT firms in Sri Lanka and stay in their employment.

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