Nationalisms in Sri Lanka: A Bibliography Cast in 2014..

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Amunugama, Sarath 1979 ‘Ideology and class interest in one of Piyadasa Siris­ena’s novels: the new image of the “Sinhala Buddhist” nationalist’ in M Roberts (ed.) Collective identities, nationalisms and protest in modern Sri Lanka, Colombo:: Marga Institute, pp 314-36

Anderson, Benedict 1983 Imagined communities. Reflections on the origin and spread of Nationalism.  London: Verso

Arasaratnam, S 1958 ‘Dutch sovereignty in Ceylon: a historical analysis of its problems’, Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies 1: 105-21

Barnett, L D 1916 ‘Alphabetical guide to Sinhalese folklore from ballad sources’, Indian Antiquary 45: 1-116

Bechert, H 1978 ‘The beginnings of Buddhist historiography in Ceylon: Mahāvamsa and political thinking’, in Bardwell L. Smith (ed.) Religion and legitimation of power in Sri Lanka, Chambersburg, PA: Anima Books, pp 1-12

Beidelman, T. 1966 ‘Swazi royal ritual’, Africa 36: 373-401.

Brow, James 1990 ‘Nationalist rhetoric and local practice: the fate of the village community in Kukulewa’, in Jonathan Spencer (ed.) Sri Lanka. History and the roots of conflict, London: Routledge, pp 125-44.

Chatterjee, Partha 1986 Nationalist thought and the colonial world, London: Zed Books.

Codrington, H. W. 1909 ‘The Kandyan Navandanno’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch 21: 221-53.

Coomaraswamy, Radhika 1987 ‘Myths without conscience: Tamil and Sinhalese writings of the 1980s’ in C Abeysekera and N Gunasinghe (eds), Facets of Ethnicity in Sri Lanka, Colombo: Social Scientists Association, pp 72-99.

Culavamsa 1953 Cūlavamsa, ed. by W Geiger for the Pali Text Society, Colombo: Ceylon Government Information Department.

Daniel, E. Valentine 1990 ‘Afterward: sacred places, violent spaces’, in Jonathan Spencer (ed.), Sri Lanka. History and the roots of conflict, London: Routledge, pp 227-46.

Desai, A. R. 1948 Social Background of Indian Nationalism, Bombay: Popular Praka­shan.

De Silva, C. R. 1977 ‘The rise and fall of the kingdom of Sitawaka (1521-1593)’, Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies, n.s. 7: 1-43.

De Silva, C. R. 1983 ‘The historiography of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka. A survey of the Sinhala writings’, Samskrti 17: 13-22.

De Silva, C. R. 1987 Sri Lanka: A history, New Delhi: Vikas.

De Silva. K. M. ‘Resistance movements in nineteenth century Sri Lanka’, in M Roberts (ed.) Collective identities, nationalisms and protest in modern Sri Lanka, Colombo: Marga Institute, pp 129-52.

De Silva. K. M. 1981 A history of Sri Lanka, Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Deutsch, Karl W 1953 Nationalism and social communication, Cambridge, Mass: Press.

Dewaraja, Lorna S 1988 The Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka, 1707-1792, Colombo: Lake House Investments Ltd.

Dharmadasa, K. N. O. 1978 ‘The ideological pinnacle of Sinhalese language nationalism, Part I: Cumaranatunga and the Hela identity’, Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies 8: 1-16.

Dharmadasa, K. N. O. 1979 ‘The rise of Sinhalese language nationalism’, unpublished dissertation, Monash University, Melbourne.

Dharmadasa, K. N. O. 1991 ‘ “The People of the Lion”: ethnic identity, ideology and historical revision ism in contemporary Sri Lanka’, Mss.

Dharmapala, Anagarika 1965 Return to righteousness, (ed. by A Guruge) Colombo: Ministry of Education & Cultural Affairs.

Dumont, Louis and Pocock, D 1957 ‘Village studies’, Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol1: 23-41.

Duncan, James S 1990 The city as text: The politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Firth, Raymond 1954 ‘Social organisation and social change’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 84: 1-20

Firth, Raymond 1955 ‘Some principles of social change’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 85: 1-18

Geiger, Wilhelm 1908 The Dīpavamsa and Mahāvamsa and their historical devel­opment in Ceylon, trans. by Ethel Coomaraswamy, Colombo: Government Printer

Gellner, Ernest 1983 Nations and nationalism, Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Godakumbura, C E 1955 Sinhalese literature, Colombo: Colombo Apothecaries’ Co. Ltd

Godakumbura, C E 1976 Literature of Sri Lanka, 3rd ed., Colombo: Department of Cultural Affairs.

Gooneratne, Yasmine 1968 English Literature in Ceylon, 1815-1878, Dehiwala: Tisara Prakasakayo

Goonewardena, K W 1977 ‘Kingship in seventeenth century Sri Lanka’, The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 3: 1-32

Griffith, Mrs. G Darby 1841-42 ‘Ceylon during a residence in the years 1841-42’, Mss Diary in 4 vols

Gunawardana, R A L H 1978 ‘Social function and political power: a case study of state formation in

irrigation society’, Indian Historical Review 4: 259-73

Gunawardana, R A L H 1979 ‘ “The People of the Lion”: the Sinhala identity and ideology in history

and historiography’, The Sri Lankan Journal of the Humanities 5: 1-36

Gunawardana, R A L H 1990 ‘ “The People of the Lion”: the Sinhala identity and ideology in history and historiography’, in J Spencer (ed.), Sri Lanka. History and the Roots of Conflict, London: Routledge, pp 45-86

Guha, Ranajit 1985 ‘Nationalism reduced to “official nationalism” ‘, Asian Studies Review, July 1985, pp. 103-08

Hall, D G E 1960 A history of South East Asia, London: Macmillan

Handbook CNC 1928 The Hand-Book of the Ceylon National Congress, ed. by S W R D Bandaranaike, Colombo: H W Cave & Co

Hawkins, John 1984 Inverse images. The meaning of culture, ethnicity and family in Post-Colonial Guatemala, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Hellman-Rajanayagam, Dagmar 1990 ‘The politics of the Tamil past’, in J Spencer (ed.), Sri Lanka.  History and the roots of conflict, London: Routledge, pp 107-22

Hobsbawm, Eric 1972 ‘Some reflections on nationalism’ in T J Nossiter, A H Hanson and Stein Rokkan (eds), Imagination and precision in the social sciences, London: Faber.

Holt, John C. 1982 ‘Pilgrimage and the structure of Sinhalese Buddhism’, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 5: 23-40.

Horowitz, Donald L. 1989 ‘Incentives and behavior in the ethnic politics of Sri Lanka and Malaysia’, Third World Quarterly II: 18-35.

Jayasekera P. V. J. 1970 ‘Social and political change in Ceylon, 1900-1919’, PhD dissertation, University of London.

Kannangara, A. P. 1968 ‘Indian millowners and Indian nationalism before 1914’, Past and Present no. 40: 117-64.

Kapferer, Bruce 1983 A celebration of demons, Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press.

Kapferer, Bruce 1988 Legends of people, myths of state, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Kedourie, Elie (ed.) 1960 Nationalism in Asia and Africa, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Kemper, Steven 1990 ‘J R Jayewardene: righteousness and realpolitik’, in J Spencer (ed.), Sri Lanka.  History and the roots of conflict, London: Routledge, pp 187-204.

Liyanagamage, A. 1968 The decline of Polonnaruwa and the rise of Dambadeniya (circa 1180-1270 A.D.), Colombo: Government Press for the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Mahāvamsa 1989 Mahāvamsa. The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka, ed. by A Guruge, Colombo: Associated Newspapers of Sri Lanka Ltd.

Malalgoda, Kitsiri 1970 ‘Millennialism in relation to Buddhism’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 12: 434-41.

Manor, James (ed.) 1984 Sri Lanka in change and crisis, London: Croom Helm.

Mendis, G. C. 1943 ‘The causes of communal conflict in Ceylon’, University of Ceylon Review 1: 41-9.

Mendis, G. C. n.d. Problems of Ceylon History, Colombo: Colombo Apothecaries’ Co. Ltd.

Nairn, T 1991 ‘The modern Janus’ in T Nairn, The Break-up of Britain, 2nd ed., London: New Left Books.

Nevill, Hugh 1954-55 Sinhala verse (kavi) collected by Hugh Nevill, ed. by P E P Deraniyagala, Ethnology 3 vols, Ceylon National Museum Series.

Nissan, Elizabeth and Stirrat, R. L. 1990 ‘Generation of communal identities’, in J Spencer (ed.), Sri Lanka. History and the roots of conflict, London: Routledge, pp. 19-44.

Obeyesekere, Gananath 1963 ‘The great tradition and the little in the perspec­tive of Sinhalese Buddhism’, Journal of Asian Studies 22: 139-53.

Obeyesekere, Gananath 1966 ‘The Buddhist pantheon in Ceylon and its extensions’, in M Nash (ed.) Anthropological Studies of Theravada Buddhism, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Obeyesekere, Gananath 1979a ‘The vicissitudes of the Sinhala-Buddhist identity through time and change’, in M Roberts (ed.) Collective identities, nationalisms and protest in modern Sri Lanka, Colombo: Marga Institute, pp. 279-313.

Obeyesekere, Gananath 1979b ‘Popular religions’, in Tissa Fernando and R N Kearney (eds), Modern Sri Lanka: A society in transition, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, pp. 201-26.

Obeyesekere, Gananath 1987 The cult of the goddess Pattini, Delhi: Mutilal Banarsidas.

Obeyesekere, Gananath 1989 ‘The myth of the human sacrifice: history, story and debate in a Buddhist chronicle’, Social Analysis 25: 78-93.

Obeyesekere, Ranjini 1979 ‘A survey of the Sinhala literary tradition’, in Tissa Fernando and R N Kearney (eds) Modern Sri Lanka: A society in transition, Syra­cuse, NY: Syracuse University, pp. 265-85.

Opler, Morris 1956 ‘The extensions of an Indian village’, Journal of Asian Studies 16: 5-9.

Paranavitana, Senarat 1956 The Sigiri graffiti.

Paranavitana, Senarat 1959 ‘Civilisation of the period: religion, literature and art’, in H C Ray (ed.), History of Ceylon, vol.  I: part I, Colombo: Ceylon University Press.

Peiris, Revd Edmund 1978 Studies Historical and Cultural, Colombo: Catholic Press.

Pfaffenberger, B 1979 ‘The Kataragama pilgrimage: Hindu-Buddhist interaction and its significance in Sri Lanka’s polyethnic social system’, Journal of Asian Studies 38: 253-70.

Pieris, Paul E. 1945 ‘Appointments within the Kandyan provinces’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch 36: 112-116.

Pieris, Paul E. 1949-50 Sinhale and the patriots, 1815-1818, Colombo: Colombo Apothecaries’ Co. Ltd.

Pieris, Ralph 1956 Sinhalese social organisation, Colombo: Ceylon University Press Board.

Piyadasa, L [pseudonym] 1984 Sri Lanka. The Holocaust and after, London: Marram Books.

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Powell, Geoffrey 1973 The Kandyan wars. The British army in Ceylon, 18031818, London: Leo Cooper.

Redfield, Robert 1955 The little community, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Reynolds, C H B (ed.) 1970 An anthology of Sinhalese literature, London: George Allen & Unwin.

Roberts, Michael 1966 ‘Indian estate labour in Ceylon during the coffee period I’, Indian Economic and Social History Review 3: 1-52.

Roberts, Michael 1972 ‘Variations on the theme of resistance movements: The Kandyan rebellion of 1817-18 and latter-day nationalisms in Ceylon’, Ceylon Studies Seminar, 1970-71 series, No. 10, 5 October 1971.

Roberts, Michael 1977 ‘Elites, nationalisms and the nationalist movement in British Ceylon’, in M. Roberts (ed.), Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and nationalist politics in Ceylon, 1929-1950, vol. 1, Colombo: Department of National Archives, pp. xxv-ccxxii.

Roberts, Michael (ed.) 1977 Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and nationalist politics in Ceylon 1929-1950, 4 vols, Department of National Archives.

Roberts, Michael 1978 ‘Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and Sinhalese perspectives: barriers to accommodation’, Modern Asian Studies 12: 353-76.

Roberts, Michael 1979a ‘Meanderings in the pathways of collective identity and nationalism’, in M Roberts (ed.) Collective identities, ationalisms and protest in Modern Sri Lanka, Colombo: Marga Institute, pp. 1-96.

Roberts, Michael 1979b ‘Elite formation and elites, 1832-1931’, in M Roberts (ed.) Collective identities, nationalisms and protest in Modern Sri Lanka, Colombo: Marga Institute, pp. 153-213.

Roberts, Michael 1982 Caste conflict and elite formation. The rise of a Karava elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Roberts, Michael 1989a ‘A tale of resistance: the story of the arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka’, Ethnos 55: 69-82.

Roberts, Michael 1989b ‘The political antecedents of the revivalist elite within the MEP coalition of 1956’ in C R de Silva and Sirima Kiribamune (eds) K W Goonewardena Felicitation Volume, Peradeniya University, pp. 185-220.

Roberts, Michael 1990 ‘Noise as cultural struggle: tom-tom beating, the British and communal disturbances in Sri Lanka, 1880s-1930s’, in Veena Das (ed.) Mirrors of violence. Communities, riots, survivors in South Asia, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 240-85.

Roberts, Michael 1991 ‘Mentalities: ideologues, activists and historians in the 1915 “riots” in Sri Lanka’, Mss. paper presented at the International Association of Historians of Asia [IAHA] Conference, Hong Kong, June 1991. [See Exploring Confrontation, 1994 for final version]

Roberts, Michael, Raheem, Ismeth and Colin-Thome, Percy 1989 People inbetween, Vol. I, The Burghers and the middle class in the transformations within Sri Lanka, 1790s-1960s, Ratmalana: Sarvodaya Book Publishing Services.

Robinson, Marguerite S 1975 Political structure in a changing Sinhalese village, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rogers, John D 1987 Crime, justice and society in colonial Sri Lanka, London: Curzon Press.

Rogers, John D 1990 ‘Historical images in the British period’, in J Spencer (ed.), Sri Lanka. History and the Roots of Conflict, London: Routledge, pp. 87-106.

Russell, Jane 1982 Communal politics under the Donoughmore Constitution, 1931-1947, Dehiwala: Tisara Prakasakayo.

Samaraweera, Vijaya 1981 ‘Land, labour and capital and sectional interests in the national politics of Sri Lanka’, Modern Asian Studies 15: 127-62.

Smith, Anthony D. 1988 The ethnic origins of nations, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Smith, Bardwell L 1978 Religion and legitimation of power in Sri Lanka, Chambersburg, PA: Anima Books.

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Spencer, Jonathan 1990 A Sinhala village in a time of trouble. Politics and change in rural Sri Lanka, Delhi: Oxford University Press.

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Suraweera, A. V. 1965 Alakēsvara yuddhaya, Colombo: Ratna Pot Prakasakayo.

Suraweera, A. V. 1976 Rājāvaliya, Colombo: Lake House Investments Ltd.

Tambiah, S J 1968 ‘The magical power of words’, Man n.s. 3: 175-208.

Tambiah, S J 1976 World conquerer and world renouncer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tennekoon, Serena 1990 ‘Newspaper nationalism: Sinhala identity as historical discourse,’ in J Spencer (ed.) Sri Lanka.  History and the roots of conflict, London: Routledge, pp. 205-26.

Turner, Victor and Turner, Edith 1978 Image and pilgrimage in Christian culture. Anthropological perspectives, New York: Columbia University Press.

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Vimalananda, Tennakoon 1970 The Great Rebellion of 1818, Colombo: Guna­sena & Co.

Washbrook, David 1975 ‘The development of caste organisations in South India 1880 to 1925’, in C J Baker and D Washbrook (eds.) South India: Political institutions and political change, 1880-1940, Macmillan Company of India Ltd., pp 150~203.

Whitaker, Mark P. 1990 ‘A compound of many histories: the many pasts of an East Coast Tamil community’, in J Spencer (ed.), Sri Lanka.  History and Roots of Conflict, London: Routledge, pp 145-63.

 

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Winslow, Deborah 1984a ‘A political geography of sacred deities: space and the pantheon in Sinhalese Buddhism’, Journal of Asian Studies XLIII: 273-91.

Winslow, Deborah 1984b ‘The onamastic discourse of folk etymologies in Sri Lanka’, Social Analysis vol. 16, pp 79-90.

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Woost, Michael D. 1990 ‘Rural awakenings: grassroots development and the cultivation of a national past in rural Sri Lanka’, in J Spencer (ed.), Sri Lanka.  History and the Roots of Conflict, London: Routledge, pp 164-83

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2 responses to “Nationalisms in Sri Lanka: A Bibliography Cast in 2014..

  1. Chandra R. de Silva

    You might consider adding
    Ananda Abeysekera, The Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity and Difference, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002 and
    Ananda Abeysekera, The Politics of Postsecular Religion {Mourning Secular Futures}, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
    K.N.O. Dharmadasa, Language, religion, and ethnic assertiveness : The growth of Sinhalese nationalism in Sri Lanka, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

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