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.
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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.…
“How I became an Anthropologist” Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere
The keynote address delivered on sociology day in 2015 at the University of Peradeniya, and elsewhere published as In Praise of Foolishness (with Apologies to Erasmus).In this essay he reflects back on his own works. “In the more popular paper I argue that right thorough history literary chronicles refer to the king in heroic terms…
The Origins and Institutionalisation Of Political Violence (Part 2)- Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere
“This is certainly not the case: most middle-class people, as well as ordinary villagers whom I know have a strong Sinhalese – Buddhist identity, But they did not engage in violence against Tamils and were for the most part shocked by the brutality and suddenness of these events. It is true that some connived in…
The Origins and Institutionalisation Of Political Violence (Part 1)- Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere
This essay by Gananath obeyesekere that appeared in Sri Lanka in Change and Crisis(Ed.James Manor, 1984) is a close investigation into post 1977 political realities, the implications of which have much to do with present impasse that Sri Lankan society seems to be in. Gananath obeyesekere, the greatest anthropologist produced by Sri Lanka was born…
