Sri Lanka has been at the center of far-flung networks for millennia—a key part of trade routes, the spread of religions, and Asian and European empires. This book sets out to use contemporary scholarship that focuses on that role as a crossroads to set Sri Lanka more firmly in the fields of Asian and global history. Contributors draw on the archaeology, history, literature, and art of the island from 500 BCE to 1850 CE to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. Showing the subtle ways in which foreign elements can be simultaneously resisted and embraced, the book presents a distinctive, but deeply connected, Sri Lanka, one that is defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.

About the Authors

Zolt�n Biedermann is a senior lecturer and head of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at UCL, London, and the author of The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India.

Alan Strathern is associate professor of history at the University of Oxford and the author of Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka.

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