The History of Ceylon From the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Its Present Condition

History

Knighton, William

Asia

Legare Street Press

The History Of Ceylon: From The Earliest Period To The Present Time (1845)

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The History of Ceylon: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Pub

The writer William Knighton (c.1824-1900) spent much of his career in Sri Lanka and India. Published in 1855, this is an account of the court of the notorious Indian King Nussir-u-deen (c.1803-37), written from the viewpoint and using the testimony of an anonymous British member of the King's retinue. Richly descriptive, it is an intimate portrait of life in the service of a hedonistic sovereign so hated and paranoid that he feared his own family would try to poison him. He is characterised as a cruel and frivolous man who only trusted his sycophantic barber. As well as describing the lavish royal lifestyle, the narrator documents the King's thirst for hunting, for exotic-animal fights and for abusing and humiliating members of the royal family. This is a lurid and engrossing tale of a monarch in decline and the corruption and favouritism that led to his eventual assassination.

The Private Life of an Eastern King: By a Member of the Household of His Late Majesty, Nussir-u-deen, King of Oude (Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History)

Cambridge University Press

William Knighton (d. 1900) published this history of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) in 1845. He spent most of his career there and in India, and published a number of vivid accounts of his experiences. This book surveys the ancient past of the island up to Knighton's own day, covering its many rulers and invaders as well as its shifting eras of unity and fracture into competing kingdoms. It gives an account of the first settlement, the establishment of Buddhism, the growth of the ancient capital Anuradhapura, the reign of Queen Anula (the first female ruler in Asia), the emergence of early Christianity, the development of the caste system, the medieval wars after the forming of the Jaffna Kingdom, the arrival of the Portuguese, the Dutch, and later the British invasion. Covering law, agriculture, arts, religion and language, this learned work remains relevant to students of Sri Lankan history and culture.

The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of its Present Condition (Cambridge ... Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society)

Elithu Jan's Story or the Private Life of an Eastern Queen

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

World

BiblioLife

Memoirs of Sir William Knighton, Bart., G. C. H.: Keeper of the Privy Purse During the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth: Including His Corr

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Nabu Press

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Forest Life in Ceylon, Volume 2

The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Its Present Condition

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