The pasts of the national flag: some unorthodox views on the invention of tradition by Gananath Obeyesekere organised by National Trust Sri Lanka.
'kathika' social, cultural and political review
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Stories And Histories – Gananath Obeyesekere
Stories And Histories: SRI LANKAN PASTS AND THE DILEMMAS OF NARRATIVE REPRESENTATION Price – Rs. 850.00 Publication- Sarasavi, Sri Lanka “In this work entitled Stories and Histories: Sri Lankan pasts and the dilemmas of narrative representation I emphasize, as in my other writings, the tentativeness of historical knowledge. History in my thinking, as with some…
Child ordinations and the rights of children – Gananath Obeyesekere
” The more serious problem is that of sexual abuse notoriously associated with all forms of institutionalized monasticism, witness the recent cases of abuse of children put in their pastoral care even by high prelates of the Catholic Church. But Catholics have no system of child ordination and therefore the possibility of abuse of children…
“Maha Vidagama Thera and Maha Totagama Thera came from Southern India” Gananath Obeyesekere
Sinhala Histories in Kandy Period : Palm Leaf Manuscripts Known as ‘Vitti Pot’ and ‘Kadaim Pot’, The Address by the Guest of Honour, Gananath Obeyesekere at The Open Univesity Research Sessions 2018.
The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon – Review by Gananath Obeyesekere
Visakha Kumari Jayawardene. The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1972. Pp. 382. Review by Gananath Obeyesekere University of California, San Diego “The naive-Marxist view of the proletariat infuses the book in another way. The proletarians are the good guys, the British and the conservative Ceylonese elite (the ruling…
Some Comments on the Social Backgrounds of the April 1971 Insurgency – Gananath Obeyesekere
“This high level of political consciousness accounts for the fact that of the parliamentary democracies in Asia, Sri Lanka was the only country that consistently threw out governments through a popular vote so that no government has had more than two consecutive returns to power, and most governments have had only one term of office.…
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