Professor Gananath Obeyesekere spoke of the dry presentation of Buddhist teachings in abstract intellectual terms that he remembers from his youth. These were in contrast to the experience of going to pilgrimage places where pilgrims and their teachers told stories based on vernacular texts. He summarized one such story in which a man married a…
The pasts of the national flag: some unorthodox views on the invention of tradition by Gananath Obeyesekere organised by National Trust Sri Lanka.
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…
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.
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…
“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.…
'කතිකා' සංවාද මණ්ඩපය 'kathika' sanvada mandapaya 