Sinhalese



ETHNONYMS: Singhlese, Sinhala


See also Moor of Sri Lanka ; Tamil of Sri Lanka ; Vedda

Bibliography

Gombrich, Richard F. (1971). Precept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Highlands of Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press.


Gunawardana, R. A. L. H. (1979). "The People of the Lion: The Sinhala Identity and Ideology in History and Historiography." Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 5:1-36.


Roberts, Michael (1982). Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Yalman, Nur (1967). Under the Bo Tree: Studies in Caste, Kinship, and Marriage in the Interior of Ceylon. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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