... 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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