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This book explores popular, political and symbolic meanings assigned to dress in a variety of colonial contexts in Sri Lanka; thus it focuses on the politics of nationalism and identity under late colonialism. Proceeding from the understanding that self-representation is at its peak at the moment of... More

It is a sad birthday for the baby blue whale. Nobody has wished him because he has grown too big for his age, but still his party turns out to be a merry one.... More

The essays in this volume address, in different ways, some of the new international and transnational forces that are shaping the developmental state in Sri Lanka.The essays in this volume address, in different ways, some of the new international and transnational forces that are shaping the develop... More

Since the late 1970s civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis; conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars in the last two decades have thus tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of the minorities. The entire ... More

This book is a very important work of scholarship and research because it sheds fresh light on some of the historical roots of present-day Sri Lankan ethnic politics through an examination of the last decades of colonial ceylon. Hardbound... More

Hardbound... More

This book brings together an international team of leading researchers in the field of higher education to address the important problem of understanding good university teaching. It focuses on the thinking, beliefs, and knowledge, which accompany teachers' actions. It draws on research from North A... More