Responding to requsts from two different friends, I provide a list of the articles penned on the various currents of nationalism in Sri Lanka — studies spanning the colonial period and post-1948 politics. The list is not comprehensive. I may well have touched on pertinent political currents in some other essays. But this listing should foster a critical … and even slashing …. review of my engagments in this field in ways that could promote future scholarship.
Tamils assembled en masse at Sudumalai Amman Kovil grounds to hear Pirapaharan speak, 4 August 1987
A SELECT LIST OF ARTICLES by MICHAEL ROBERTS on NATIONALISMS IN SRI LANKA & ITS ENVIRONS
2013 Towards Citizenship in Thāmilīlam: Sri Lanka’s Tamil People of the North, 1983–2010. South Asia Research, 33(1), 57-75.
2007 Suicide Missions as Witnessing: Expansions, Contrasts. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 30(10), 857-887.
- Narrating Tamil Nationalism: subjectivities and issues. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 27(1), 87-108.
2003 Language and national identity: the Sinhalese and others over the centuries. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 9(2), 75-102.
2002 The collective consciousness of the Sinhalese during the Kandyan Era: Manichean images, associational logic. Asian Ethnicity, 3(1), 29-46.
2001 Dakunen sädi kotiyo, uturen golu muhudai, [The fierce/vile Tamils to the south, the turbulent/ unfathomable sea to the north]” Pravāda 6, 17-18.
2001 Ethnicity after Edward Said: Post-orientalist failures in comprehending the Kandyan period of Lankan history. Ethnic Studies Report, 19(1), 69-98.
2001 The burden of history: Obstacles to power sharing in Sri Lanka. Contributions to Indian sociology, 35(1), 65-96.
2000 “Himself and project. A serial autobiography. Our journey with a zealot, Anagarika Dharmapala” Social Analysis, 44(1), 113-141.
1998 Emotion and the person in nationalist studies. Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, 24(25), 65-86.
1997 Histories. International Social Science Journal, 49(153), 373-385.
1997 For humanity. For the Sinhalese. Dharmapala as crusading bosat. Journal of Asian Studies, 56, 1006-1042.
1996 Filial devotion in Tamil culture and the Tiger cult of martyrdom. Contributions to Indian sociology, 30(2), 245-272.
1994 Of traditions, memories and ideological blockages. Asian Studies Review, 18(2), 71-76.
1993 Emotion and the Person in Nationalist Studies. in Japanese in The Shinso, Special edition on Nationalism Today ed. by T. Aoki, 127-150.
1993 Nationalism, the past and the present: The case of Sri Lanka. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 16(1), 133-166.
1989 Pejorative Phrases: The Anti-Colonial Response and Sinhala Perceptions of the Self through Images of the Burghers. in Swedish in Lanka. Tidskrift om Lankesisk Kultur (Uppsala), 2.
1989 Apocalypse or accommodation? Two contrasting views of Sinhala‐Tamil relations in Sri Lanka. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 12(1), 67-83.
1989 A tale of resistance: The story of the arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka. Ethnos, 54(1-2), 69-82.