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Open Access

On Open Democracy.org

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/aime_cesaire_poetry_as_weapon/

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/srilanka_state_4105jsp/

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/colonial_multiculturalismjsp/

Not Open Access

Wall Street Journal

‘Rajapaksa makes a move’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703743504575494863452823020

Tiger Test

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121028086842378571

Articles in Journals

2025 "Sri Lanka’s Leftist ‘Renaissance’." Current History 124.861 (April): 154-156. 

2023. ‘A Country in Abeyance: Sri Lanka’s Continuing Crisis, Current History 122 (843): 131-136 

2021. ‘Sri Lanka in 2020. Return to Rajapaksa Regnum,’ Asian Survey, Vol. 61, 211-216. 

2019. with Alicia Schrikker, “The Ambivalence of Freedom: Slavery in Jaffna in the 18th-19th centuries,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 78, Issue 3, Aug. 2019: 497-519. 

2018. with Marina Carter ‘Forcing the archive: involuntary migrants ‘of Ceylon’ in the Indian Ocean World of the 18–19th centuries’, South Asian History and Culture, (9) 2, 194-206.



2015. ‘Colonial Governmentality and the Political. Thinking Through ‘1931’ in the Crown Colony

of Ceylon/Sri Lanka’, Socio/5 – Ed de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme: 75-90

2015. ‘Sri Lanka in 2014: Cracks in the Edifice,’ Asian Survey 55 (1): 60-66

2014. 'Sri Lanka in 2013: Post-war Oppressive Stability, ';Asian Survey 54(1): 199-205.

2013. ‘Producing the Present. History as Heritage in Post-War Patriotic Sri Lanka’, Economic and

Political Weekly XLVIII (No 43): 91-100.

2012. ';Democracy and entitlements in Sri Lanka: The 1970s crisis over university admission';, South

Asian History and Culture 3(1): 81-96.

2011. '9;Colonial governmentality: Critical notes from a perspective of South Asian Studies';,

Comparativ. Zeitschrift fur Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforshung 21(1): 32-40.

2010. ‘Sri Lanka. The Triumph of vulgar patriotism’, Current History 109(726): 158-162.

2009. ‘After the War: A New Patriotism in Sri Lanka’, Journal of Asian Studies 68(4): 1045-1054.

2009. ‘Sri Lanka in 2008. Waging War for Peace’, Asian Survey 49(1): 59-65.

2009. ‘Many little revolts or one Rebellion? The Maritime provinces of Ceylon/Sri Lanka between

1796 and 1800’, South Asia. Journal of South Asian Studies 32(2): 170-188.

2008. ‘Sri Lanka in 2007. Military Successes, but at Humanitarian and Economic Costs’, Asian Survey

48(1): 191-197.

2007. ‘Sri Lanka’s Conflict: Culture and Lineages of the Past’, Journal of International Affairs 60(1): 107-

124.

2006. ‘La Pétition Coloniale. Objet de controle, objet de dissidence’, Identity, Culture, Politics 7(1-2):

82-97.

2005. ‘The Idea of Civil Society in the South. Imaginings, Transplants, Designs’, Science and Society

69(1): 458-486.

1997. '9;The Return of Keppetipola's Cranium. Authenticity in a New Nation';, Economic and Political

Weekly 32(30): 85-92

1995. ‘History outside the Nation', Economic and Political Weekly 30(26): 1570-1572.

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