Ten Bullets to One, Twenty to Another
Thomas Meaney: Sri Lanka, 2 February 2017
Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World
by Steven Kemper.
Chicago, 480 pp., £31.50, January 2015,978 0 226 19907 8 Show More
by Steven Kemper.
Chicago, 480 pp., £31.50, January 2015,
Tamil: A Biography
by David Shulman.
Harvard, 416 pp., £25, September 2016,978 0 674 05992 4 Show More
by David Shulman.
Harvard, 416 pp., £25, September 2016,
The Seasons of Trouble: Life amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
by Rohini Mohan.
Verso, 368 pp., £16.99, October 2015,978 1 78168 883 0 Show More
by Rohini Mohan.
Verso, 368 pp., £16.99, October 2015,
“... Japan, the US, Europe – to collect funds for the Buddhist cause. Dharmapala’s biographer, Steven Kemper, calls him ‘more of an ascetic than a political leader’, but it was partly because of his asceticism that Dharmapala’s fusion of Sinhala-Buddhist identity and nationalism caught the imagination. From reading the German racial theorist Max ... ”
