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The Devil Dancers: Bibliography

HISTORY AND POLITICS

‘Emergency ‘58’
Tarzie Vittachi [Written by a journalist, this contemporary document provides invaluable eyewitness accounts of the civil disturbances of 1958 together with a detailed analysis of events.]

Buddharakkita Thero v. Wijewardena: NLR 49 of 62 [1960] LKSC 20; (1960)
62 NLR 49 (26 April 1960) [The Privy Council rejects Buddharakkita’s attempt to claim the income from Helena Wijewardene’s legacy of paddy land to the temple at Kelaniya.]

The Queen v Buddharakkita and 2 Others: NLR 433 or 63 [1962] LKHC 1; [1962] 63 NLR 433 (15 January 1962)
[Buddharakkita’s appeal against the death penalty to the Court of Criminal Appeal.]

The Mahavamsa Anon.

A History of Sri Lanka
K.M. de Silva

Buddhism Betrayed?
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

Sri Lanka A History
Chandra Richard de Silva

Ceylon of the early travellers
H.A.J. Hulugalle

Sri Lanka: The Untold Story
K.T. Rajasingham 


CULTURE AND RELIGION

Buddhism Transformed
R. Gombrich, G. Obeyesekere

Legends of People Myths of State
Bruce Kapferer

Buddha Karen Armstrong
 


AGRICULTURE, FLORA AND FAUNA

Traditional agriculture in Sri Lanka
Edward Goldsmith and Mudyanse Tenekoon

Nava Kekulam method of paddy cultivation
G. K. Upawana

Snakebite in Sri Lanka
Anslem de Silva

Birds of Sri Lanka Gehan de Silva Wijeyratne, Deepal Warakagoda, T.S.U. de Zylva 



MAPS AND GENERAL INFORMATION

Insight Guides Sri Lanka
Discovery Channel

Globetrotter Sri Lanka Robin Gauldie