Machine derived contents note: List of figures -- Preface -- Glossary of terms -- A note on transliteration -- Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction -- Part II. Towards and Interpretive Frame: 2. Landscape as a signifying system -- 3. The discursive field of Kandyan kingship -- 4. Concretizing the Sakran discourse: from landscape of the gods to landscape of the hero-kings -- 5. The Kandyan landscape, 1312-1815 -- Part III. The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in Early-Nineteenth-Century Kandy: 6. From discourse to landscape: a kindly reading -- 7. From landscape to civic ritual: a kingly reading -- 8. From landscape to discourse: contestatory readings and material interests -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- List of references -- Index
