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Revisiting Robert Knox’s Experiences in the Kandyan Kingdom in the 17th Century
Padma Edirisinghe, in Sunday Observer, 2016, where the title runs “That wanderer among the Kandyan hills”.… see note below ** Thirteen miles off Gampola, past sprawling tea estates nestling in the lap of luxuriantly foliaged mountains, lies Legundeniya. Here, the … Continue reading →
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Territorial Claims: First Settlers & Their Primacy
Michael Roberts, presenting an article published in 2005 as a pamphlet by the ICES, Colombo with this title “The First Settlers and Their Claim to Ownership of Terrain/State. A Comparative Excursion” … an essay originally presented in Abdul Rahman Embong, Rethinking … Continue reading →
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Richard Koenigsberg’s Succinct Summary of the Law of Sacrifice
Richard Koenigsberg: “The Proof of the Pudding is in the Dying” The desire to die and kill–in war, genocide, revolution and terrorism–grows out of attachment to an ideology conceived as absolute Dying and killing are undertaken with the purpose of validating an ideology … Continue reading →
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Caste Issues in Sri Lanka: A Partial Bibliography
Michael Roberts I came across this undated list in my computer files — one drawn up quite sometime back, maybe 20 years back. Though I would seem to have been part of the enterprise, some spellings suggest the involvement of … Continue reading →
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Religion within Tamil Militancy and the LTTE
Iselin Frydenlund, presenting her article in Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion, May 2018, …. one entitled “Tamil Militancy in Sri Lanka and the Role of Religion” …. https://sangam.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Tamil-Militancy-in-Sri-Lanka-and-the-Role-of-Religion.pdf … OR … https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Tamil-Militancy-in-Sri-Lanka-and-the-Role-of-Frydenlund/4cbf5235611dd3407dfa3a2962e6ea635ac50674 … with highlights and pictures being impositions by the … Continue reading →
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The Ideology of Sacrificial Death and Australian Nationalism during World War One
ALSThis short essay appeared in the year K????K within the Website run the Library of Social Science headed by Richard Koenigsberg and he has sent it to me this month (November 2020) — presumably inspired by the recent jihadist attacks in … Continue reading →
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Thiruketheeswaram: the Site of a Temple from Pre-Historic Times
Thiru Arumugam, being an article presented recently in The CEYLANKAN, Journal of the Ceylon Society of Australia. No. 3, August 2021 Thiruketheeswaram is located about eight km north of Mannar Town. It is on the coastal mainland of Ceylon, near … Continue reading →
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Galle: Basic Facts ….. Historical, General and Pacha
Ruhunu Putra, in THE ISLAND, 2o November 2020, where the title is “Historical Glance at Galle” Galle is the capital of the Southern Province. The popular derivation of its name is from the Sinhala word Gaala – a cattle pen. … Continue reading →
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Australian Nationalism and the Ideology of Sacrificial Devotion
Michael Roberts, being an abridged version of an old article presented in the Library of Social Science run by Richard Koenigsberg and others. Addressing the practices of remembrance in Australia, Richard Koenigsberg has noted the irony that a battlefield defeat at Gallipoli … Continue reading →
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Sinhala Nationalism
Rajesh Venugopal, … presenting here the second chapter in his book Nationalism, Development and the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Cambridge University Press, 2018,…. 78-1-108-42879 8 hdback Sinhala nationalism is the dominant form of political consciousness in contemporary Sri Lanka. As … Continue reading →
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