DIG Jingle Dissanayake’s Report on the JVP in Lanka, 4th November 1974
A NOTE from Michael Roberts, 27 November 2023 This file is among the documentary material under my name in the Special Collections, Barr Smith Library, Adelaide University and Samantha Farnsworth, its...
View ArticleAnother Time, Another World: Social Science in Postwar Sri Lanka
Uditha Devapriya & Uthpala Wijesuriya, … with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Background: In Sri Lanka, social science research witnessed an expansion in the 1950s. Various scholars,...
View ArticlePolitical Dogfight Looming in 2024 General Elections in Sri Lanka
Uditha Devapriya, in The Diplomat, December 2023, where the title runs thus “Political and Electoral Uncertainty in Sri Lanka Ahead of the 2024 Elections” Wickremesinghe wants to keep his job; the...
View Article‘Made’ in Australia: The Journal SOUTH ASIA
SEE … https://southasianstudies.org.au/journal/ South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies ranks as the leading academic journal in South Asian studies. It provides a forum for scholarly research,...
View ArticleDifferentiation in the Foundations of Criticism in Recent Struggles in Sri Lanka
Abeysekara, Ananda …. presenting a synopsis of an article with the same title presented in the web journal Academia …………………....
View Article“Colonization and Ethnic Conflict in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka”– Article in
Patrick Peebles in a refereed article in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb., 1990), pp. 30-55 …. which John De Silva in Melbourne, my Aloysian sporting mate, has worked on to make it...
View ArticleAmiable Academic Reciprocities: Peebles & Roberts, 1970
Michael Roberts The academic world and its scholarship is marked by cooperative work as well as animosities and rivalry – whether personal or based on political affiliations. The Sri Lankan scenario...
View ArticleSSC: The Studies in Society & Culture Project, 1992 et seq
SSC PAMPHLET PROJECT Some of you may remember this project in Sri Lanka in the 1990s directed towards making selected academic articles on the history & politics of Sri Lanka available to the...
View ArticleA 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...
View Article“Walk Like An Elephant”…. Being Laleen Jayamanne’s Engagement with the...
Walk Like an Elephant: The Island Essays 2022-2023′ These are 22 essays written by Laleen Jayamanne during the time of the Aragalaya/Struggle/Paroattam in 2022 and in the aftermath. These writings...
View ArticleVale: Chris Rodrigo … A Scholar, Marxist & Friend
Kumar David in The Island, 26 May 2024 ….. whre the title reads thus: “G.C. Rodrigo: Friend, Colleague and Comrade” The phrase “When alone think clearly and when with others speak carefully” is...
View ArticleDeciphering the Work of Caste in Sri Lanka’s Lifeworld
Thuppahi is delighted to present a new research venture in keeping with its own spirit — with TUDOR SILVA in Lanka and MARK BALMFORTH in Canada in command. CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion...
View ArticleITIHAS Launched …. and Spreads Its Wings
Go to …. https://itihas.lk/contact/ … Note that the presentation here is a re-cast selection by The Editor of Thuppahi who has also imposed his colourings on the text Mission: What we hope to...
View ArticleThe Work of Anthropologists from Sri Lanka: Reviewing the World Scenario in 1987
Presenting an academic article published in Contributions to Indian Sociology , n.s, Vol 21, 1-25 … also reproduced subsequently in Sri Lanka in 1989 as No, 10 within the SSC Pamphlet Series...
View ArticleAppreciating Kumari Jayawardena’s Scholarship
Uditha Devapriya … in The Island, 28 June 2024, where the title reads: “A Tribute to Kumari Jayawardena” … while the presentation here includes highlights imposed by The Editor Last month the...
View ArticleMichael Roberts Mss stored at Adelaide University
Michael Roberts The library at Adelaide Univeristy is known as the BARR-SMITH LIBRARY. The staff in the “Special Collections” within the library over the years have been especially helpful over a long...
View ArticleVale: 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...
View ArticleLet’s Remove the Colonial Tropes in the Writings on Sri Lanka
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose preferred title is “Decolonizing July 1983’s Fiction and History for a Post-Ethnic Sri Lanka: Tropes of Violence and Cold War at the end of the American Century”...
View ArticleTHE 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...
View ArticleArticles by Michael Roberts presented in Edited Books
ITEM presented in reverse chronological order by Sophia Corfield … a postgrad at Adelaide University when this list was compiled, circa 2012 Sri Lanka: The power of cricket and the power in cricket....
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