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The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom 1591-1765
Gananath Obeyesekere
其他書名
Lessons for Our Time
出版Sail Fish, 2020
ISBN95577430699789557743066
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=F_wZzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Surrounded by magnificent mountains, the city of Kandy, home of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth and the Royal Palace, was the capital of Lanka for about three hundred years. Gananath Obeysekere paints a vivid portrait of the kings of these great green highlands of Kandy, revealing a complex and advanced society every bit as violent as any other civilization. Focusing on kings Vimaladharmasuriya 1, Rajasinha II, Sri Vijaya Rajasinha and Kirti Sri Rajasinha, he brings the Kandyan monarchy to life, depicting them not as mythic figures but as real flesh and blood, larger than life characters who ruled over the last citadel of Lankan aristocracy