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The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country s multiple linguistic and religious communities, as well as its political travails...