Book Talk
Book Talk offers a variety of reviews of recent books published in different forums courtesy of the original publishers/reviewers. We hope to share in this manner with Sri Lankan readers new insights into recent debates and discussions over academic and non-fiction books.
Wickramasinghe, Nira. Slave in Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka, 2021. Colombo: Tambapanni Academic Publishers. ISBN 9786245629018
Karunanayake, Panduka, Ruptures in Sri Lanka’s Education: Genesis, Present Status and Reflections. Sarasavi Publishers, Nugegoda, 2021. Pp: 280. ISBN 9789553117793. Price LKR 600.00 (softcover).
Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean (Critical, Connected Histories, edited by Alicia Schrikker and Nira Wickramasinghe. Leiden University Press. Paperback: 59.50 $. 298 pages. ISBN-10 : 908728344X
Ronit Ricci, Banishment and Belonging, Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon, 2019, pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-72724-2.
Anton Piyarathne, Constructing Commongrounds: Everyday Lifeworlds Beyond Politicised Ethnicities in Sri Lanka, 2018, pp. 274. Nugegoda, Sri Lanka: Sarasavi Publishers. ISBN-9789553111111.
Meenakshi Thapan ed., J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice: Social and Moral Vision for Inclusive Education, 2018, pp. 424. New Delhi: Oxford Universityt Press. ISBN 0-19-948780-4.
Zoltan Biederman, (Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugual, Sri Lankan Diplomacy and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia, 2018, pp. 255. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198823391.
Yashodhara Dalmia, Buddha to Krishna: Life and Times of George Keyt, 2017, pp. 216. New Delhi: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-03814-1.
Sasanka Perera, Violence and the Burden of Memory: Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness, 2016, pp. 322. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. ISBN 978-81-250-6051-2.
Sasanka Perera, Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka: Tales from Darker Places in Paradise, 2016, pp. 231 (with illustrations). New Delhi and Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing. ISBN 978-93-515-0922-6.
Ronit Ricci, ed., Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration, 2016, pp. 294. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. ISBN: 9780824853754
Steven Kemper, Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World,2015, pp. 368. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226199078.
Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Orientalism. Terrorism, Indigenism: South Asian Readings in Postcolonialism, 2015. New Delhi: Sage. ISBN 978-93-515-0142-8.
