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In Defence of a Voice from the Grave, That of Sunila Abeysekera
Jane Russell presenting “a reply to unjustified criticism ” …. * …. [see endnote] Foreword: I first met Sunila Abeysekera at a joint exhibition of sculpture and poetry which my Sri Lankan partner, sculptor Malathie de Silva, and I held … Continue reading →
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The Expulsion of Muslims from the North by the LTTE in October 1990: Raison Détre
DBS Jeyaraj, whose chosen title is “How and Why the LTTE Evicted Muslims from the Northern Province in “Black October 1990,” when placed in DBSJeyaraj.com on 22 October 2020, …… This article was written in 2015 to mark the Twenty–Fifth … Continue reading →
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Presenting the Portuguese Burghers of Sri Lanka: Today and Yesterday
Earl Barthelot, in Ceylon Digest, 22 February 2020, where the title reads “The Portuguese Burghers of Ceylon” Sri Lanka is well known for its diversity with over 22 numerically small communities and majority communities such as Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims. … Continue reading →
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Dutch Burghers and Portuguese Mechanics: Eurasian Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Dennis B. McGilvray, reproducing an essay presented in April 1982 within Comparative Studies in Society and History 24 (2): 235-263 –– an article that is wide-ranging and draws on ethnographic work as well as historical manuscripts. Note that the highlighting … Continue reading →
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A Critical Appraisal of Michael Roberts’s Writings on Eelam War IV
Gerald Peiris …. where the original title was “Michael Roberts’ Writings” [1] Unlike the reports compiled by the ‘UNSG PoE’ and the UTHR-J, the writings by Professor Roberts (hereafter, ‘Michael’ as ’Gerry’ has I have known him during the past 66 … Continue reading →
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An Ethnological Introduction to the Tamils of Sri Lanka
Karthigesu Sivathamby This item now presented in Thuppahi is the first part of a book in pdf format entitled The Tamils of Sri Lanka. In converting the pdf the whole text went haywire and the paragraph divisions were all over … Continue reading →
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Buddhism among Tamils in the Past … and Present-Day Squabbles
PK Balachandran, in The Citizen, 8 August 2021, where the title is “In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Link with Buddhism is Brushed Under the Carpet” Unsustainable claims put forward by the Sinhalese and the Tamils on language, religion and ethnicity, … Continue reading →
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Ameer Ali’s Academic Works and Career
Recent Essays of Some Significance “Anatomy of an Islamist Infamy -II,” in Colombo Telegraph, 6 May 2019, reprinted in Thuppahi as ““How Extremisms have fed off Each Other in Sri Lanka, 1950s-to-2019 …. and still proceeding”, 6 May 2019, https://thuppahi.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/how-extremisms-have-fed-off-each-other-in-sri-lanka-1950s-to-2019-and-still-proceeding/ “The … Continue reading →
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Shihan De Silva Jayasuriya’s Wide-ranging Work on Portuguese Creole and the Kaffir
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya of the University of London has been researching the Portuguese in the East for over twenty years and has generated a significant number of studies on Portuguese Creole peoples, their life-style ad languages in Sri Lanka … Continue reading →
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From Empiricist Conflation to Distortion: Caste in South Asia
Michael Roberts, responding in 1985 to a Review Essay by Susan Bayly of Cambridge University on his book on Caste Conflcist and Elite Formation, CUP 1982 Susan Bayly** has done me the honour of reviewing the book on Caste Conflict … Continue reading →
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