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2025. ‘Ameliorating the Enslaved: Connected Histories of Abolition of Slavery’ pp. 203-210, in ed

Saurab Dube and Ishita Banerjee, The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History, London:

Routledge


2025. "The Making of National Relics: The Return of a Throne and a Skull in Colonial Sri Lanka" In Resist, Reclaim, Retrieve: The Long History of the Struggle for the Restitution of Cultural Heritage and

Ancestral Remains Taken under Colonial Conditions edited by Larissa Förster, Jan Hüsgen and Sarah

Fründt, 148-158. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter


2023 “Postscript: The Many Worlds of Monsoon Asia.” In Monsoon Asia, eds D. Henley and Nira

Wickramasinghe, :377–82. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789400604360-017.


2022. ‘Mahinda Rajapaksa: from populism to authoritarianism,’ in ed. A.Diekhoff et al. Contemporary

Populists in Power. Palgrave Macmillan, 113-130


2020 with Alicia Schrikker, ‘Slavernij, slavenhandel en de VOC in Zuid-Azie’ in eds P. Brandon, M.

van Rossum, G. Jones De Slavernij in Oost en West: Het Amsterdam onderzoek , Amsterdam: Municipality

of Amsterdam.


2020. with Alicia Schrikker, ‘Introduction’ to Being a Slave. Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in

the Indian Ocean Leiden: Leiden University Press


2019. ‘La fabrication de la stabilité oppressive au Sri Lanka’ in ed. C. Jaffrelot et al, Paris: CERI

Presses, 2019.


2017. ‘Citizens, Aryans and Indians in Colonial Lanka: Discourses on Belonging in the 1920s-1930s’

in ed M. Laffan, ‘Belonging and the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights,

London: Bloomsbury.


2016. ‘Postscript’ of Sri Lanka. The Struggle for Peace in the aftermath of War eds A. Amarasingham and

D. Bass, London: C.Hurst Publ.


2013. ‘Fashioning a Market: the Singer Sewing Machine in Colonial Sri Lanka’ in: Daniel T. Rodgers,

Bhavani Raman, Helmut Reimitz (Eds), Cultures in Motion, Princeton: University Press


2010. ‘Sri Lanka's Independence: Shadows over a Colonial Graft.’ In: Brass, P.R. (Ed.), Routledge

Handbook of South Asian Politics. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, 41-51. Abingdon UK:

Routledge.

2010. Colonial Influence on Dress in Sri Lanka. In: Dhamija, J. (Ed.), Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress

and Fashion. Vol 4. South Asia and Southeast Asia, pp. 249-254. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.


2010. Sri Lanka. In: Dhamija, J. (Ed.), Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. Vol 4. South and

Southeast Asia, 95-101. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.


2009. ‘The Imagined Spaces of Empire’ in ed. Tariq Jazeel and Catherine Brun, Spatialising Politics.

Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka, (New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London, Singapore:

Sage Publications, 24-43.


2006. “Unthinking the Terrorism-Globalisation Nexus’ in ed. Imtiaz Ahmed, Understanding Terrorism

in South Asia. Beyond Statist Discourses, New Delhi: Manohar, 371-411.


2003. "The Return of Keppetipola’s Cranium: The Construction of Nationalism in Sri Lankan

Nationalism’ in eds. Gyanendra Pandey and Peter Geshiere, The Forging of Nationhood, New Delhi:

Manohar & SEPHIS, 2003, 129-156.


2002. ‘From Hybridity to Authenticity: the Biography of a few Kandyan Things’ in ed. Neluka Silva,

The Hybrid Island. Culture Crossings and the Invention of Identity in Sri Lanka, London: Zed Publ. and

Colombo: SSA, 2002, 71-92.


2000.‘Migration and Migrant Communities in early twentieth century Sinhala Nationalism’ in ed.

Crispin Bates, Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora, London: Palgrave 2000, 153-

184.


1999. ‘L’Histoire en dehors de la nation’ in ed. M.Diouf, L’Historiographie indienne en débat.

Colonialisme, nationalisme et societes postcoloniales, Paris: Karthala-Sephis, 419-432.


1998. ‘Sri Lanka: The Many Faces of Security’ in Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences,

ed. by Muthiah Alagappa, Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1998, 367-389.


1997. ‘Governance: A Critique’ in ed. M. Somasundram, The Third Wave. Governance and Public

Administration in Sri Lanka, New Delhi: Konark Publ. 1997, 129-144.


1996. 'From Human Rights to Good Governance: the Aid Regime in the 1990s' in ed. Mortimer

Sellers, Human Rights, Sovereignty and the Self-determination of Peoples, Oxford and Providence: Berg

Press, 1996, 305-326.


1994. ‘New History and the Annales School' in Introduction to Social Theory, eds Radhika

Coomaraswamy and Nira Wickramasinghe, New Delhi: Konark Publ. 1994, 37-51.

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