Category: Polity

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 BRIDGES ACROSS THE ETHNIC DIVIDE Stanley J. Tambiah 04 THE NATION IN SRI LANKAN TAMIL GATHERINGS IN BRITAIN E. Valentine Daniel 12 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN SRI LANKA:JULY 1983 Sunil Bastian 18 CONTESTATION IN VIENNA:THE UN HUMAN RIGHT CONFERENCE Kumudini Samuel 24 ARMED STRUGGLE AND THE FORCES OF LAW… Continue reading Pravada Vol.2 No.6

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND OBSTACLES TO PEACE IN SRI LANKA:SOME REFLECTIONS N. Shanmugaratnam 04 THE ETHNIC CRISIS:POLITICS DEVOID OF ECONOMICS Mano Rajya 14 FRACTIONAL POLITICS DISMANTLING INSTITUTIONS OF DEMOCRACY Sunil Bastian 16 THE ECONOMICS OF LIFE AND DEATH Amartya Sen 18 SOCIAL BASIS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Sumanasiri Liyanage 23 US ASSISTANCE… Continue reading Pravada Vol.2 No.5

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 PREMADASA AS PRESIDENT:A POSTHUMOUS ASSESMENT Jayadeva Uyangoda 05 ECONOMICS OF THE PREMADASA REGIME 09 INFORM FIELD REPORT ON REFUGEES 16 SRI LANKA’S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS 21 THE PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS:AN ANALYSIS Sunil Bastian 23 LETTERS 26 WIDOWS MIGHT IN SRI LANKA Kumari Jayawardena 28 INDO-PAKISTAN NUCLEAR “CRISIS” Itty Abraham 30 ETHNICITY,CLASS,RELIGION & GENDER… Continue reading Pravada Vol.2 No.4

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 BECOMING AN NIE:A STRATEGY FOR SRI LANKA Lal Jayawardena 05 NATIONALISM, FEDERALISM AND REALISM Adrian Wijemanne 17 CASTE STRUGGLES IN NOTHERN SRI LANKA N.Shanmugathasan 19 DEMOCRATIC STATE FORMATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS Laksiri Fernando 24 WOMEN’S RIGHTS:THE INCOMPLETE STRUGGLE Kithsiri Weerasinghe 26 VISALA’S MODERNITY Laleen Jayamanne 28 GANGSTERISM:ITS POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY Jayadeva Uyangoda… Continue reading Pravada Vol.2 No.3

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 OPEN ECONOMY IN SRI LANKA W.D. Lakshman 05 TOWARDS A STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON SOUTH ASIA Newton Gunasinghe 09 PUNISHING THE VICTIM 13 MASSACRE OF MUSLIMS: ITS MEANING FOR TAMILS Rajan Hoole 18 EDUCATING FOR PEACE:TAMIL, PERSPECTIVE Charles R.A. Hoole 25 REIGN OF TERROR Anjali 28 CRICKET,NATIONALISM AND SUB CONTINENTAL FANS Sankaran… Continue reading Pravada Vol.2 No.2

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 1992-YEAR OF POLITICAL CONFUSION Jayadeva Uyangoda 05 GROWTH Vs. WELFARE POPULISM IN 1992 Sunil Bastian 11 HUMAN RIGHTS- 1992 A DISMAL RECORD Charles Abeysekera 16 IDENTITY, AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM (ii) Edward Said 19 INDIA’S SANE VOICES: HISTORIANS SPEAK 22 WORLD BANK AND THE POLITICS OF AID (ii) Peter Gibbon 28 POEM … Continue reading Pravada Vol.2 No.1

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 TEACHER’S ROLE IN ETHNIC CONFLICT- II Sasanka Perera 04 IDENTITY, AUTHORITY, AND FREEDOM Edward Said 12 POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION Sharon Stephens 18 PNOM PENH, DECEMBER 1992 Sunila Abeysekera 22 WORLD BANK AND THE POLITICS OF AID Peter Gibbon 23 DRAUPADI Mahasweta Devi 28 IN PRINT  34 ON FEDERALISM Jayadeva Uyaangoda 36

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 SRI LANKA’S ETHNIC WAR:THE MUSLIM DIMENSION Ameer Ali 05 CIVIL WAR AND WOMEN OF JAFFNA Stanley J. Tambiah 08 DISUNION NOW: A SOCIETY BASED UPON SMALL UNITS Leopold Kohr 12 TEACHER’S ROLE IN THE ETHNIC CONFLICT Sasanka Perera 15 GLOBALIZATION: A WORLD WITHOUT ALTERNATIVES Upendra Baxi 22 RE-BIRTH OF POPULISM IN… Continue reading Pravada Vol.1 No.11

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 NAM IN A CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT: Saman Kelegama 05 LINGUSITIC ETHNO-NATIONALISM: Stanley J. Tambiah 08 WHITE WOMEN, ARRACK FORTUNES AND UDDHIST GIRL’S EDUCATION Kumari Jayawardena 13 SCRIBES, PHARISEES AND JUDGES Corups Delicti 17 MODERN SCIENCE – WESTERN, PATRIACHAL MYTH? – PART 2 Meera Nanda 19 SENDERO LUMINOSO IN PERU: Jayadeva Uyangoda… Continue reading Pravada Vol.1 No.10

NOTES AND COMMENTS 03 THIRD WORLDISM Anila Cherian, Shan Manikkalingam and Robin Varghese 06 RELIGION, ETHNICITY & PERSONAL IDENTITY Nighat Said Khan 08 ON STATE, SOCIETY AND DISCOURSE IN INDIA Sudipta Kaviraj 11 NATION STATE IN CIRISIS- THE RISE OF ETHNO-NATIONALISM Stanley J. Tambiah 16 EMERGENCY LAWS AND LABOUR Charles Abeysekera 20 POEMS OF SIVARAMANI… Continue reading Pravada Vol.1 No.9