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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…

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…