Exploring Confrontation: Sri Lanka: Politics, Culture and History

ISBN-13: 9783718656929 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 406 str.

Michael Roberts; M. Roberts; Michael Roberts

Opis

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Introduction ONE A Pictorial Prelude: The Religious Circumstances of Political Action TWO Authors and their Situations Past and Present THREE The Asokan Persona as a Cultural Disposition FOUR "Caste Feudalism"? A Critique through the Asokan Persona and European Contrasts FIVE The Asokan Persona and its Reproduction in Modern Times SIX Four Twentieth Century Texts and the Asokan Persona The Particular and the General SEVEN The Imperialism of Silence under the British Raj: Arresting the Drum EIGHT Mentalities: Ideologues, Assailants, Historians and the Pogrom against the Moors in 1915, NINE 'I Shall have you Slippered': The General and the Particular in an Historical Conjuncture TEN Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka and Sinhala Perspectives: Barriers to Accommodation ELEVEN Ethnicity in Riposte at a Cricket Match: The Past for the Present TWELVE The 1956 Generations: After and Before Evocations: A Contrast THIRTEEN The Agony and the Ecstasy of a Pogrom: Southern Lanka, July 1983 FOURTEEN A Biographkal Epilogue

O autorze

Michael Roberts