...Nira Wickramasinghe; Alicia Schrikker Abstract This article discusses slavery and the lives of enslaved people in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, under Dutch and British rule. It argues that by sanctioning and tapping into a perceived local practice of slavery and legally constituting slaves, Dutch...

...Steven Kemper Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 The Karmic Theatre: Self, Society, and Astrology in Jaffna . By R. S. Perinbanayagam . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 1982 . xi, 190 pp. Notes, References, Index. $22.50. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

...Bryan Pfaffenberger Abstract In the same year (1968) that students blockaded the streets of Paris, the formerly somnolent Jaffna Peninsula—the center of Tamil culture in Sri Lanka—was rocked by its own version of civil unrest. Led by an activist affiliated with the “Peking wing” of the Ceylon...

... activist in Jaffna who dared to criticize the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), for which she paid with her life. Thiranagama actually portrayed her mother in reenactments in the 2005 documentary film, No More Tears Sister , and In My Mother's House expertly builds upon her mother's legacy...

... population living in the region. The subsequent section focuses on the distinctive attributes and processes of socioeconomic change in the Jaffna Peninsula, which cumulated in the tensions and attitudes that made it the epicenter of the separatist movement. I show how the positive economic potential...

... Theatre: Self, Society, and Astrology in Jaffna. By R. S. PERINBANAYAGAM. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. xi, 190 pp. Notes, References, Index. $22.50. R. S. Perinbanayagam wants both to analyze the way Sri Lankan Tamils put astrology to use in their everyday lives and to make...

... stressing the immanence of a great deity cannot be tolerated without controversy within the central zone of Hindu population and culture? 3) What do Hindus perceive in Kataragama and the god Murukan that proves so appealing? The Village Deities of Jaffna Hinduism in Sri Lanka, as in India, is best described...

... from other parts of the Indian Ocean rim during Dutch rule, and a caste-based slave system in Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, where the VOC had hardened and codified preexisting forms of bondage. Slavery's gradual abolition in the early nineteenth century, which took place through a series of legal...

..., Vavuniya posted a suicide rate more than double that of any other district. In each of the five years from 1970 to 1974, Vavuniya recorded the highest suicide rate of any district; neighboring Jaffna in each of those years was among the three districts with the highest rates. Colombo, with the largest...

... of hierarchy and domination. Although this is scarcely a new argument, it is true enough, but the reader wants to know how this metaphor gets cashed out by Jaffna Hindus. Invoking Antonio Gramsci does not do that; citing ethnographic cases would. Similarly, when it comes to explaining the Gita and astrological...

.... At the recommendation of the Governor, they were settled in what the Governor no doubt considered back of beyond the Jaffna peninsula. Here, despite government-created obstacles, diey established an educational program which was to have important consequences. Their region was a Tamil settlement and their students...

... coincides with the beginning of the Tamil Eelam movement. The end of his career is also important, for as long as he lived, his leadership constrained the upsurge of Tiger violence (p. 113). Jaffna Tamils regarded Chelvanayakam as a "Moses," a "Master," the "Father," and "the trousered Gandhi." Wilson...

... by day, low-caste by night); sight nearly gone, he is old, feeble. 1641, June: again imprisoned. 1645-48: at Jaffna, supposed to rest; health improved, he has a busy schedule. 1648: at Mylapore, living in small hut. 1652: removed to college residence within Portuguese fort, Mylapore. 1656, Jan. 16: dies...

... and Sons. Dissanayake T. D. S. A. 1984 . The Agony of Sri Lanka . Colombo : Swastika Press . Economic Review. 1985 . “ Mahaweli Construction .” Economic Review 11 (Colombo; July/August): 3 – 14 . Federal Party . 1974 . llankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi Silver Anniversary Volume: Jaffna...

... languages Galle, the seaside journey from Galle to Colom- which is now under preparation, since these bo, by road or rail to Kandy and Nuwera Eliya sources are absolutely essential in somefieldsof were usual excursions; Trincomalee and Jaffna study. had few visitors. Religious sites and events...

...- which is now under preparation, since these bo, by road or rail to Kandy and Nuwera Eliya sources are absolutely essential in somefieldsof were usual excursions; Trincomalee and Jaffna study. had few visitors. Religious sites and events in With the assistance of a couple of colleagues working on Nepal...

... secessionists, the case for Eelam as a positively viable project, not merely as a negative refuge. No doubt this case will invite argument. Pfaffenberger's article is about the 1968 temple-entry crisis on the Jaffna Peninsula, the territorial and cultural center of the majority of Sri Lankan Tamils. (Batticaloa...

... the inundation of the region of the Paḥruḷi in Rasanayagam M. , Ancient Jaffna ( Madras , 1926 ), p. 10 . 59 Arthaśāstra ii.11.2 speaks of Pāṇḍyakavāṭa and and Tāmraparṇī as sources of pearls. MBh , Droṇa 23, says that Kṛṣṇa overcame the Pāṇḍya kapāṭa and slew its king, and some...

... this point to an extreme, he argues that Jaffna's dependency on other districts "has been deliberately engineered by successive governments in order to weaken the minority's economic and political stronghold over their traditional homeland" (p. 113). This is a highly contentious argument. Manogaran...

... Magistrate, Jaffna]—Queen's Advocate, April 1, 1871, p. lxxxvii. 38 1871 Administration Reports , Report of the District Judge, Kalutara, A. Y. Adams, june 10, 1872 , p. 317 . Also see 1872 Administration Reports , Kegalla, A. A. King, A.G.A., Hambantota, june 5, 1873 , p. 38...