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Introduction : the power of the past / Jonathan Spencer -- Colonialism, history and racism. The generation of communal identities / Elizabeth Nissan and R.L. Stirrat -- The people of the lion : the Sinhala identity and ideology in history and historiography / R.A.L.H. Gunawardana -- Historical images in the British period / John D. Rogers -- The politics of the Tamil past / Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam -- History at a moment of crisis. Nationalist rhetoric and local practice : the fate of the village community in Kukulewa / James Brow -- A compound of many histories : the many pasts of an east coast Tamil community / Mark P. Whitaker -- Rural awakenings : grassroots development and the cultivation of a national past in rural Sri Lanka / Michael D. Woost -- The politics of the past. J.R. Jayewardene, righteousness and realpolitik / Steven Kemper -- Newspaper nationalism : Sinhala identity as historical discourse / Serena Tennekoon -- Afterword : scared places, violent spaces / E. Valentine Daniel. |
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