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UNMASKING THE EMPIRE in British Ceylon: The Post 1915 Riots Campaign-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Image Source:Thuppahis Unmasking the Empire: The campaign for justice following the 1915 Pogrom and the collaboration of British Christian humanitarians at the beginning of Sri Lanka’s struggle for Independence, …. Prabodith Mihindukulasuriya Social Scientists’ Association, No. 380/86, Sarana Road, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka, 2023, 312 pp, ISBN: 978-955-0762-47-7, Printers: Karunaratne & Sons (Pvt) Ltd., 65 C, Thalgahawila Road, Midellamulahena, Horana, Sri Lanka. EW Perera DB Jayatilaka CONTENTS Abbreviations vi Notes on Terminology vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xii Part I: Introduction Chapter One: British Christian Humanitarianism, the Ceylonese Temperance Movement, and Imperial Governance 3 Chapter Two: One Hundred Days: The 1915 Pogrom and Martial Law Reprisals (May–August 1915) 15 Part II: The Campaign for Justice in Britain (1915–1919) Chapter Three: Phase I: Battle for Credibility (July 1915–August 1916) 41 Chapter Four: Phase II: Battle for Due Process (September 1916 – ...

The Twisted Histories of a Colombo Canal-By Sujit Sivasundaram Source:Historyworkshop This article is part of HWO’s series on The Political Environment. The series explores how environmental change has been created and contested in the past, and asks how this history might widen the scope of our political imagination in response to global ecological crisis today. You can read an introduction to the series here. The political environment can go missing in a neighbourhood one knows well, for the human eye is often blind. Close to where I grew up in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the Kirulapone Canal enters the sea at Wellawatte, a district in the south of the city, which – charmingly, but now without a correspondence to reality – translates from Sinhala as ‘sandy garden’. This district is also sometimes referred to as ‘Little Jaffna’: a reference to the city in the north of the island, a pressure point in the country’s civil ...