Charles Blackton's peer reviewed article reconstructs the course of the 1915 Sinhalese Muslim riots in British Ceylon from official colonial records, tracing how a dispute over a Buddhist religious procession passing a mosque in Kandy escalated over several months into widespread attacks on Muslim owned property across the Central, Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces, and examining the colonial government's martial law response, including its executions and detentions of Sinhalese leaders, several later shown to have been uninvolved in the violence.
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PublisherThe Journal of Asian Studies, volume 29, issue 2 1 Publication Year Assessment
Reliability TierA peer reviewed article in a leading Asian studies journal, built from British colonial administrative and martial law records, and cited as the standard scholarly reconstruction of how the 1915 riots actually unfolded over their several month course. Connections
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This source names Sinhalese directly: "reconstructs the course of the 1915 Sinhalese Muslim riots in British Ceylon from official colonial records, tracing how a dispute over a Buddhist religious procession passing a mosque in Kandy..."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
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