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Nationalist Studies and the Ceylon Studies Seminar at Peradeniya, 1968-1970s
Michael Roberts …. repeating an old TPS item [with highlighting added] because of the implications of the recent TPS item by Bedgar Perera re Prof Rex Clements. The years 1966 to 1975 were heady days in Ceylon. Especially so for … Continue reading →
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THE CEYLON JOURNAL is launched: Seeking to Elucidate the Past & the Present
The Ceylon Journal is finally out On August 2, 2024, the inaugural volume of The Ceylon Journal was launched at the Sri Lanka Medical Association Auditorium. This new publication by Heritage Publications is spearheaded by young historian Avishka Mario Senewiratne, … Continue reading →
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Vale: An Appreciation of Malathi De Alwis … Researcher & Writer
Geethika Dharmasinghe, in Colombo Telegraph, 23 January 2021, where the title reads as “Our Malathi”… presented here with emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi She was the first woman in Sri Lankan politics after Kumari Jayawardena to build an awareness … Continue reading →
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Talking about Oral History Work on Ceylon in the 1960s
Adilah Ismail in the Sunday Times, 7 June 2015, where the title is “Colourful history of a historian” … with highlighting imposed by the Editor Thuppahi viz, Roberts himself Looking back on his ‘going-down memory lane interviews’ with retired Britishers … 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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Deep Currents in Sri Lankan Politics Reappear
Shashik Silva, in Polity, 16 September 2025 where the title runs thus: “Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Sri Lanka” Cleavage politics has emerged as one of the most defining features of Sri Lanka’s party system and political behaviour … Continue reading →
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Muslims in Netherlands in Anti-Jewish Rampages
Henry Ergas in The Australian, 15 November 2024 with this title: “Jew hatred festers amid multicultural malaise” …. “Barbarians on scooters are riding through our capital city hunting Israelis and Jews,” David van Weel, the Dutch Minister of Justice and … Continue reading →
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A Lifetime Addressing Nationalist Political Currents & Zealotry
Michael Roberts As I attend a friend’s funeral every now and then in Adelaide or receive mail conveying sad tidings re good friends and other acquaintances, I am reminded that I will disappear into the dust in due course relatively … Continue reading →
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People Inbetween: Ethnic & Class Prejudices in British Ceylon
Michael Roberts …. presenting a talk which he delivered at the National Trust in Colombo in June 2018 following a brief to the effect that he should present motifs from the book People Inbetween. The Burghers and the Middle Class in … Continue reading →
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Pahalgam Atrocity: Brink of Indo-Pak War?
Lakshman Gunasekara, in the Sunday Observer, 4 May 2025 where the title is more temperate: “South Asia tense as India sanctions Pakistan over Kashmir attack” … with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi ** A bloody attack on an … Continue reading →
