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Sri Lanka History Index
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Source: The Library of Congress Country Studies

• History Introduction
• Historical Setting
  • ORIGINS
    * Ancient Legends and Chronicles
    * Buddhist Chronicles
    * The Impact of Buddhism
  • THE CLASSICAL AGE, 200 B.C.-A.D. 1200
    * Early Settlements
    * Rise of Sinhalese and Tamil Ethnic Awareness
  • DECLINE OF THE SINHALESE KINGDOM, 1200-1500
    * Sinhalese Migration to the South
    * A Weakened State: Invasion, Disease, and Social Instability
  • EUROPEAN ENCROACHMENT AND DOMINANCE, 1500-1948
    * The Portuguese
    * The Dutch
    * The British
    * Early Contacts
    * The British Replace the Dutch
    * Modernization and Reform
    * The Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms
    * Economic Innovations
    * Rise of the Sri Lankan Middle Class
    * Buddhist Revivalism
    * Constitutional Reform
    * World War I
    * The Donoughmore Commission
    * Growth of Leftist Parties
    * World War II and the Transition to Independence
  • INDEPENDENCE
    * Divisions in the Body Politic
    * United National Party "Majority" Rule, 1948-56
    * Emergence of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
    * Tamil Politics
    * Sri Lanka Freedom Party Rule, 1956-65
    * Legislation and Communal Agitation
    * Populist Economic Policies
    * United National Party Interlude
    * Return of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
    * The United National Party Regains Power, 1965-70
    * United Front Rule and Emerging Violence, 1970-77
    * The United National Party Returns to Power
    * Election of 1977 and More Violence
    * Constitution of 1978
    * The Riots of 1981
    * Presidential Election of 1982
    * The Riots of July 1983

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