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Exploring Confrontation

Studies in Anthropology and History

Studies in Anthropology and History is a series that will develop new theoretical perspectives, and combine comparative and ethnographic studies with historical research.

Edited by Nicholas Thomas, The Australian National University, Canberra.

VOLUME 1

Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society: Ponams progress in the Twentieth Century

ACHSAH H. CARRIER AND JAMES G. CARRIER

VOLUME 2

Androgynous Objects: String bags and gender in central New Guinea

MAUREEN ANNE MACKENZIE

VOLUME 3

Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical essays 19711991

JOHANNES FABIAN

VOLUME 4

Colonial Space: Spatiality in the discourse of German South West Africa 18841915

JOHN NOYES

VOLUME 5

Catastrophe and Creation: The transformation of an African culture

KAJSA EKHOLM FRIEDMAN

VOLUME 6

Before Social Anthropology. Essays on the history of British anthropology

JAMES URRY

VOLUME 7

The Ghotul in Muria Society

SIMERAN MAN SINGH GELL

VOLUME 8

Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and change in the Afro-Caribbean community of Nevis

KAREN FOG OLWIG

VOLUME 9

The Return of the Ainu: Cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in Japan

KATARINA V. SJBERG

VOLUME 10

Tradition and Christianity: The colonial transformation of a Solomon Islands society

BEN BURT

VOLUME 11

Recovering the Orient: Artists, scholars, appropriations

ANTHONY C. MILNER AND C. ANDREW GERSTLE

VOLUME 12

Women of the Place: Kastom, colonialism and gender in Vanuatu

MARGARET JOLLY

VOLUME 13

A History of Curiosity: Foundations of anthropological knowledge in early modern times

JUSTIN STAGL

VOLUME 14

Exploring Confrontation. Sri Lanka: Politics, culture and history

MICHAEL ROBERTS

OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION

The Gifts of the Kamula

MICHAEL WOOD

Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices: Sri Lankans and international tourism

MALCOLM CRICK

An Island History

ANNE KNUDSEN

Michael Roberts

Exploring Confrontation

Sri Lanka: Politics, culture and history

First published 1994 by Harwood Academic publishers

Published 2021 by Routledge

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BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Roberts, Michael

Exploring Confrontation: Sri Lanka

Politics, Culture and History.

(Studies in Anthropology & History, ISSN

1055-2464; Vol. 14)

I. Title II. Series

954.93

ISBN 3-7186-5506-3ISBN-3-7186-5692-2

DESIGNED BY Maureen Anne MacKenzie

Em Squared Main Street Michelago NSW 2620 Australia

FRONT COVER Noviciates (Smanera) awaiting the higher ordination ceremony which renders them bhikkhus. They are dressed in the style of Dutugmunu. This was at the Ruvanvalisaya in Anuradhapura on 27 June 1981, an occasion when the President, J.R. Jaywardene, presented the noviciates with robes. Photograph from the Ceylon Daily News, 29 June 1981. Retaken by the Educational Technology Unit, University of Adelaide.

ISBN 13: 978-3-7186-5692-9 (pbk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315077277

this book is dedicated to

my friends from the Peradeniya days

and also

marks four fond memories,

the ramparts that were my beat in the fort of Galle,

the hills of Hantn from the Peradeniya cricket field,

the seashore from the reef at Barberyn Point,

the scape around Sigiriya as the sun goeth down.

Contents

• List of Plates
• List of Tables
• List of Charts
• List of Maps
• Abbreviations
• Proper Names
• Glossary
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 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 Biographical Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index

• ONE Trotsky pays homage to the Buddha, 1970
• TWO Trotskyist leaders in jail under the British Raj during the Second World War
• THREE An LSSP demonstration against British imperialism led by Dr. Colvin R. de Silva
• FOUR Dr. Colvin R. de Silva leading a sing-song among LSSP. supporters celebrating electoral triumphs in 1956
• FIVE Dr. Colvin R. de Silva addressing an LSSP rally at Hyde Park, Colombo
• SIX Dr. Colvin R. de Silva, and his daughter, Manohari, offer a bdhi pj at Agalawatte, c. 30 March 1967
• SEVEN Prime Minister R. Premadasa performing a religious rite in late December 1984
• EIGHT A Trinity of Strong Men seeking the blessings of the Triple Gem during J.R. Jayewardenes regime, 1977-83
• NINE Somaweera Chandrasiri fulfilling a vow at Kataragama, late June 1970
• TEN The Pachr story etched on the wall of a prison cell at Vidyodaya campus by a JVP prisoner, early 1970s
• ELEVEN The sculptured image of Piiy Dviy at Gunnepana
• TWELVE The Buddha and pirivara (retinue) as sculptured at the Asokramaya Temple, Thimbirigasyaya, Colombo
• THIRTEEN Sri Vikrama and his retinue
• FOURTEEN President J.R. Jayewardene and a delegation of leading bhikkhus, January 1984
• FIFTEEN President J.R. Jayewardene and other religious delegations, January 1984
• SIXTEEN Final decision govts alone: (President Jayewardene) and an audience of bhikkhus at Kurunegala, September 1986

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