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M.M.M. Mahroof. "Malaya of Sri Lanka". For standard Malay, see, Pei, hguages for
War and Peace (later entitled lk World's Chief Languages, London, 1950). chapter on
Malay.
Ladot Hogbcn. 7k Loom of h m e (London), passim.
Some area names in Sri Lanka have the la prefix, such as Jawaae (Javanese garden). I&
(Javanese canal).
C.W. Nicholas and S. Paranavitane. A Concise History of Ceylon . . . up to 1505 (Colombo:
University of Ceylon. 1961). p. 150.
Hambantota still has a did preaemr of Malaya.
As a rule, the s eound dissolves into h sound. Heme sampan=hampan. Geiger, Grammar
of StJlOlCSC hguage, passim.
Nicholas and Paranavitane. Concise History of Ceylon, passim.
Sarong, the stitched rectangle of doth worn by the average Sri LenLan male is called lungi
or kai& m mth India.
H.L. Bohier. Changhg Face of Colombo (Colombo. I%), p. 5.
Tbc cdd period of Sri Lanka was shared by three Europan Powers. The Portuguese
ruled the maritime prwiaas of Sri LanLa from 1505 to 1646. the Dutch from 1656 to 17%.
'Ihc British annexed the only indigenous principality, the kingdom of Kandy m 1815 and
ded entire Sri Lanka from that date till 1948, when Sri Lanka became independent. Though
specid& studied have baea made of the cold period, an easy reference same is S.G.
Perera 9, A Hidory of C . n for Sahodr, part. I. 'me Porhlgu~lt and Dud periods"
and part 11, "Britiab period" (Colombo).
C.R. Boxer, lk Pomcguue Secrbumr Empin 1415-1825 (London, 1969) passim. Also,
M.M.M. Mahroof, "Impact of
. . EuropeanChnstlan rule on the Muslims of Sri Lanka; A
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P.McGuirc, W& phc Cousc (Loadon, 1943). p. 164. M.M.K. Mahroof, a) "Muslim
Education in Ceylon 1780-1880". in Islamic Cvlrvrr (Hyderabad, India), vol. xlvi, no. 2
(19n), pp. 119 sq; b) "Muslim Education in Ceylon 1881-1901" in Islmnic Culavr, vol.
xlvii, no. 4 (1973), pp. 301 sq.
Sir Stamford Raffles. History of Java (London), pasaim.
Dutch Pfiairs in Sri Lanka were controlled by the (Dutch) Council of Indiain Batavia, Java.
M.M.M. Mahroof, "Malsya of Sri Lanka", p. 56.
The bighut myal titka were Sultan and Sutuhnan. Rajaa were rulers of considerably less
territory. Penkemns formed the dass of myal families and court Ma.
S.E.M. Nicholas, Commmiol Ccylon (Colombo, 1933). p. 20.
Sina written Malay has always to be accented with Arabic diacritical marks (unlike in
standard Arabic), gvndul (Malay written in Arabic acript) looh cluttered to the unpraetised
eye. The Malay text book in the 'Merlborougb Seriea' used to print the gvndul alphabet.
M. Murad Jayah, 'Tk Sri Lankan Malaya: A brief Historical Sumy", in Souvmicr Muslim
Dtvelopmenf Fvnd (Colombo, n.d.).
F.H. de Vos, Law of Zntwtc~e Syocession and Marriage among the Moon or Mohammek
of Ceylon (Galle. Sri Lanka. 1905). p. 2. me Dutch Code was later given statutory status
by the British government of Sri Lanka as lk Mohanmedan Code of 1lUX (Sir Ivor Jennings
and H.W. Tambiah, Gylon; the trcekyment of ib Law and C m @ondon, 1952).
p. 252.
M.M.M. Mahroof, 'Tk Enactment of Muslim Maniage and Divorce Legislation in Sri
Lank, the Law in Context", in J o u d l Muslim ~ Mino* Affairs (JIMMA) (London1
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in G.C. Mendis (ed.), Cokbnwk-Gvneron Pqpm: Docwncllrr on Brinjh Colonial Pdicy
in Ceylon 17%-1#3 (Oxford, 1956). vol. I.
"Lnsmctiom from Hcny Dundas. President of the Board of Control of the East India
Company to governor North, 13th March 1801, paragraph 102" in G.G. Mendis, (ed.),
Colebnwk-Gnurw, Pqpm.