... the British introduced the Morley-Minto reforms. Indian representation was increased in the country's government. However, many educated Indians remained dissatisfied with these limited reforms. Englishmen still dominated India, and there had been no significant decrease in their power or increase in national power. The feeling of Nationalism continued to intensify despite the attempted reform regime. There ... partially due to its remarkable success. Britain had profited enormously from India and was reluctant to allow native Indians more power. Although the British had officially let ...

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... interstate wars to non-interstate wars. This conflict map will discuss one of these non-interstate wars, the case of Sri Lanka. Like many other nations, Sri Lanka has a heterogeneous culture, with two separate and distinct ethno-linguistic groups, the Sinhalese and the Tamils, five communities (Indian Tamils, Sri Lankan Tamils, Muslims, Burghers and Malays) and four great religions: Buddhism, ... the Sinhalese kings were forced to move their capital southwards, from Anuradhapura to Polonnaruwa and finally to Kandy (Sprang, 1993: 6-9). The Tamils are linked to the Dravidian civilisation...

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... the country with a written history reaching back to 540 B.C. The sinhalese with the influence of the Buddhist teaching developed their own unique culture and civilization. The ancient ruins, artifacts and stone writing support the official written history of the Maha Wansa. However sinister forces are ... two millenniums and a half. The story begins with the Neolithic culture represented by the megalithic monuments found in the island, and runs through the fusion of this culture with an immigrant Indo-Aryan civilization from North India. This mingling with an Indo -Aryan people and the a...

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... Northern Ireland and the struggle between the Christians and Muslims in Bosnia are examples. Ethnicity, religion, and language, the major components of culture, sometimes work together to strengthen certain groups of people. The majority in Greece is Orthodox Christian and they speak the Greek language; ... blew up a Red Cross ship chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross, off the Jaffna peninsula. ­ On August 7, 1995, an LTTE militant from India carried out a suicide-bombing, using a cart filled with plastic explosives, in Colombo, killing 22 people. ­ On September 22...

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... may have accepted Portuguese customs and traditions by adopting them as their own (3), the majority of the civilian population resisted Western religion and culture. The Sinhalese continued to practice Buddhism, as is their custom, and the minority Tamil population in the north also generally remained devout Hindus ... proceedings of the Portuguese in Ceylon. Astonished at the magnitude of their enterprises, and the glory of their discoveries and conquests in India, the rapidity and success of which secured for Portugal an unprecedented renown, we are ill-prepared to hear of the rapacit...

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... of our enlightenment. The author Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh then in East Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran and India. "The Shadow Lines" is his second book, which was published in 1988. This book opened up, enlightened our lives and not only, to know how ... it is to live in India, with the entire family under one roof, along with all the joys and pains that that can bring. The story starts about thirteen years before the ... Indian peoples life. With this I mean that as time passes, the generations are changing, and what is more important, tthat young m...

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... , have resulted from a fusion of several modes, alien and native, to create one which is entirely new. Until the 13th centuries, art forms were heavily influenced by neighboring countries notably India, Sri Lanka, and Kampuchea. With the founding of Sukhothai in the mid- 13th century, a style emerges which is uniquely Thai. To comprehend the vast body of art, which comes under ... advanced social organization and artistic attainments. By the 1st century A.D. Indian merchants were traversing Thailand's northern region and southern peninsula bringing new concepts, which more than those of ...

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