This book, "Introduction to the Study of Water Use in Sri Lanka - A Historical Study of Irrigated Agriculture," is, as the title suggests, a work that allows the reader to learn about the history of irrigated agriculture in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka has had advanced flood control technology for about 2,000 years, and its irrigated agriculture has been of vital importance to the nation's management.

Where there is technology, there is kingship. Where there is a kingdom, there is a religion." Advanced technology and the state that administers it are inseparable, and religion, which guarantees the legitimacy of that authority, is also involved.

So far I have been looking at Sri Lanka from a religious and political perspective, but in this book I will be looking at Sri Lanka from the angle of irrigated agriculture. I found this book very stimulating to see Sri Lanka from a different perspective.

The king protects Buddhism, and Buddhism guarantees the legitimacy of the king.

These interrelationships were particularly strong in Sri Lanka, which will be seen step by step in this book.

This book makes me think that religion is not only about religion. Religion, too, cannot remain unaffected by the political situation of the time. There are things that cannot be seen by simply following ideology and doctrine. This book is very valuable to learn such things carefully.

This book has been difficult to obtain, but I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about Sri Lankan Buddhism.

This book is very stimulating to learn about the interesting background of psychicism, which had an occultic and suspicious image, but was actually born out of the industrial revolution and global rationalism. It was also a very gratifying work to learn about Sri Lanka. It was very informative for me as I wanted to know about the Sri Lankan Buddhist Dharmapala and the Theosophical Society.

Don't underestimate it as merely occult. A very real problem looms before you. This is interesting.

This book is a shocker...!

Here is a new political history of Sri Lanka that only the author, who has painstakingly read hitherto neglected sources, can provide.

I feel strongly that this is a very important work for politics and religion.

I came across a terrific book.

Sri Lanka and Ethnicity: The Formation of Sinhala Nationalism and Minority Groups" is unique in its ability to examine the formation of ethnic conflict in detail by individual ethnic and religious group. In particular, the book focuses on the anti-immigrant movement of the 1930s and 1940s.

This book gives us a new perspective on the Sri Lankan civil war.

I read this book and said, "What? That's right!" I was also surprised at the number of times I found myself saying, "Oh, I didn't know that!

This book is a must read for anyone interested in the Sri Lankan civil war and political process. I highly recommend this work.

Robert Knox (1641-1720), the author of this work, was a sailor on a trading ship of the British East India Company. His ship was caught in a storm during a voyage in the Indian Ocean and made a port call in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1660. From there, they lived as prisoners of war in the Kingdom of Kandy in central Sri Lanka for almost 20 years.

The area around Kandy was not only highland, but also covered with deep jungle, making it extremely difficult to move around. In other words, it is an isolated island on land. This book, "Ceylon Island Journal," describes Knox's experience of escaping from such a difficult situation over a period of 20 years.