Nira Wickramasinghe

Nira WickramasingheNira WickramasingheNira Wickramasinghe
Home
Books
  • Non-Fiction
  • Fiction
Projects
  • Research
  • Publishing
Other Works
  • Edited Volumes
  • Book Chapters
  • Articles
  • Book Reviews
Pictures
  • Pictures
Media
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
Contact

Nira Wickramasinghe

Nira WickramasingheNira WickramasingheNira Wickramasinghe
Home
Books
  • Non-Fiction
  • Fiction
Projects
  • Research
  • Publishing
Other Works
  • Edited Volumes
  • Book Chapters
  • Articles
  • Book Reviews
Pictures
  • Pictures
Media
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
Contact
Meer
  • Home
  • Books
    • Non-Fiction
    • Fiction
  • Projects
    • Research
    • Publishing
  • Other Works
    • Edited Volumes
    • Book Chapters
    • Articles
    • Book Reviews
  • Pictures
    • Pictures
  • Media
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Books
    • Non-Fiction
    • Fiction
  • Projects
    • Research
    • Publishing
  • Other Works
    • Edited Volumes
    • Book Chapters
    • Articles
    • Book Reviews
  • Pictures
    • Pictures
  • Media
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
  • Contact

Book Reviews

Slave in a Palanquin (2020)

Paul Hallyday, https://polity.lk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Polity_Vol.11.1_24Paul.pdf

Gnanaseharan M. Nira Wickramasinghe. Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri

Lanka. Columbia University Press, New York 2020. xi, 299 pp. Ill. Maps.

doi:10.1017/S0020859024000907


Jessica Hinchy, Nira Wickramasinghe. Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka.,

The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 1058–1059,

https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad149


Kumar, Ashurosh. Review of Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka by Nira

Wickramasinghe. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 21, no. 2 (2024): 164-165.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/932287.

Sri Lanka in the Modern Age (2009)(2015)

https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/a-different-history/

Metallic Modern (2014)

https://www.iias.asia/the-review/modernity-experienced-everyday-level


Most reviews are unfortunately behind paywalls. Here is a selection:

Spencer, J. (2023). Book review: Nira Wickramasinghe, Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and

Resistance in Sri Lanka. The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 60(2), 236-238.


John. D. Rogers (2022) Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka. By Nira

Wickramasinghe. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xi, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780231197632

(paper).by John D. Rogers, Journal of Asian Studies (81 (1): 246–247.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821002874


Allen RB. Nira Wickramasinghe. Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka. New

York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 312. $35.00 (paper). Journal of British Studies.

2021;60(3):766-768. doi:10.1017/jbr.2021.51


Arnold, D. (2015). Metallic Modern: Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka, by Nira Wickramasinghe:

(New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014), South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 38(1),

131–132.

Created by EasyTechWick