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- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 date "1998-01-01".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 first "Lawrence J.".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 isCitedBy Buddhism_and_violence.
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 isbn "9780822535508".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 language "en".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 last "Zwier".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 publisher "Lerner Publications".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 quote ""Because the Mahavamsa was written in Pali, few Sinhalese could read it until its translation. It was the British who made the Mahavamsa a widely distributed work, publishing an English translation of the first part of the Mahavamsa in 1837. The British governor also commissioned the Sinhalese translation of the original and its updates."".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 quote ""Perhaps more than any other person, Dharmapala was responsible for popularizing the faulty impression that Tamils and Sinhalese had been deadly enemies in Sri Lanka for nearly 2,000 years. He often quoted the Mahavamsa as if it were a completely factual account, and his favorite passages were those that made the Tamils sound like pagan invaders who were ruining the island. Much of his preaching and writing was racist. Dharmapala insisted that the Sinhalese were racially pure Aryans — by which he meant that they had racial ties with north Indians, Iranians, and Europeans. He contrasted the Sinhalese racial line with that of the Dravidian Tamils, which he claimed was inferior."".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 quote ""The greatest importance of the Mahavamsa is not as history but as a symbol — and as a motivating force behind Sinhalese nationalism."".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 title "Sri Lanka: War-torn Island".
- books?vid=ISBN9780822535508 url "https://books.google.com/books?id=8zpuAAAAMAAJ".