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    An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years...
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  • Inscriptions of Ceylon Vol I Early Brahmi Inscriptions An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies by Robert Knox The International...
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    Robert Knox (sailor) (category Writers from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
    relation of the Island of Ceylon – March 2004. King's College London. Knox, Robert (1681). An historical relation of the island Ceylon, in the East Indies...
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  • December 2004). An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies: Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers...
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    JSTOR 25207732. Knox, Robert (1989). Paulusz, J. H. O. (ed.). An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon (Second ed.). Colombo: Tisara Press. Yule, Henry; Burnell...
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    organization : The Kandyan Period by Ralph Pieris (Ceylon University Press 1956) ISBN 955-9170-37-6 An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies...
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    English sea captain Robert Knox of the East India Company publishes his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, about his adventures, 20-years...
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    Robert. "An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon". London, 1681. Tennent, p. 281. Sirr, Sir Charles Henry, quoted in Barrow, George. "Ceylon: Past and...
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    known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern...
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    the British governor of Ceylon, Sir Robert Brownrigg, and the chiefs of the Kandyan Kingdom, British Ceylon, for the deposition of King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha...
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  • System in Ceylon". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2014. An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies...
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    An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon. London: Richard Chiswell. Oldenberg, Hermann, ed. (1879). The Dîpavaṃsa, an Ancient Buddhist Historical Record...
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    Portuguese Ceylon (Portuguese: Ceilão Português; Sinhala: පෘතුගීසි ලංකාව; Tamil: போர்த்துக்கேய இலங்கை) is the name given to the territory on Ceylon, modern-day...
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    Robert (2004). An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers...
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    Sunil J. Raja, the Sri Dalada Maligawa Tusker. Lahiri, Latika (1974). "Ceylon and China: The Account of Ceylon in the Dynastic History of the T'ang Period"...
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    population remained aware of the ruins. In Robert Knox's 1681 An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, he wrote: "At this City of Anurodgburro is a Watch...
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    Narrative of Sinhalese Kings. Colombo: George J. A. Skeen, Government Printer, Ceylon. Knox, Robert (1681). An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon. London:...
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  • The native headmen system was an integral part of the administration of the island of Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) under the successive European colonial...
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    as the 1590s, the most famous was Robert Knox who published An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon based on his experiences during the reign of Rajasinghe...
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    garrison of the Batavian colonies on the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and a British invasion force sent from British India. The Dutch Republic...
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