The present paper considers the historical processes and human agency involved in the creation of a particular identity category, the Dutch Burghers of Sri Lanka, by reflecting upon Karl Marx's maxim that 'People make their own histories, but not just as they please'. I pay homage to the guidance I received from my supervisor, Doug Miles, who enabled me to recognise that people are not so weighed down by colonial pasts that they cease to be creative agents in constituting their own life worlds and who encouraged me to analyse Dutch Burgher writings, published in the Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union, as cultural products and as material evidence of social agency
Cet article s’appuie sur la notion arendtienne du « politique » pour soutenir que le cadre colonial ...
This thesis analyzes the Sri Lankan pattern of develop-ment and its impact on contemporary social st...
This thesis investigates the structural changes in the agrarian society in Western parts of Sri Lank...
[Extract] This study on the Burghers of Sri Lanka addresses itself to the problem of social identity...
Feeding into current debates on ethnic identities in colonial South Asia, this article questions to ...
This study on the Burghers of Sri Lanka addresses itself to the problem of social identity, the idea...
The following paper deals with the human imaginary – the spatial component of Sri Lankan Buddhist im...
From the 1830s until the 1930s, millions of Indians migrated to work on plantations throughout the B...
In this paper, I discuss the evolution of Buddhist civilisational populism in modern Sri Lankan poli...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Pre...
This study examines how the self-identities of workers in Sri Lankan up-country tea plantations are ...
This paper attempts to provide understanding about the cultural and socio-economic character of the ...
This paper attempts to provide understanding about the cultural and socio-economic character of the ...
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Includes bibliogra...
The roles of colonial museums in South Asia have been understood in terms of the dissemination of mu...
Cet article s’appuie sur la notion arendtienne du « politique » pour soutenir que le cadre colonial ...
This thesis analyzes the Sri Lankan pattern of develop-ment and its impact on contemporary social st...
This thesis investigates the structural changes in the agrarian society in Western parts of Sri Lank...
[Extract] This study on the Burghers of Sri Lanka addresses itself to the problem of social identity...
Feeding into current debates on ethnic identities in colonial South Asia, this article questions to ...
This study on the Burghers of Sri Lanka addresses itself to the problem of social identity, the idea...
The following paper deals with the human imaginary – the spatial component of Sri Lankan Buddhist im...
From the 1830s until the 1930s, millions of Indians migrated to work on plantations throughout the B...
In this paper, I discuss the evolution of Buddhist civilisational populism in modern Sri Lankan poli...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Pre...
This study examines how the self-identities of workers in Sri Lankan up-country tea plantations are ...
This paper attempts to provide understanding about the cultural and socio-economic character of the ...
This paper attempts to provide understanding about the cultural and socio-economic character of the ...
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Includes bibliogra...
The roles of colonial museums in South Asia have been understood in terms of the dissemination of mu...
Cet article s’appuie sur la notion arendtienne du « politique » pour soutenir que le cadre colonial ...
This thesis analyzes the Sri Lankan pattern of develop-ment and its impact on contemporary social st...
This thesis investigates the structural changes in the agrarian society in Western parts of Sri Lank...