All Stories

  1. Encompassing Empowerment in Ritual, War, and Assassination: Tantric Principles in Tamil Tiger Instrumentalities

    Article • Social Analysis, January 2014, Berghahn Journals

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  2. On the Meaning of “Parangi” and “Burgher”

    Article • March 2011, Duke University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  3. Landmarks and Threads in the Cricketing Universe of Sri Lanka

    Article • Sport in Society, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  4. Manipulating Meaning in Sri Lanka: Exploring Confrontation: Sri Lanka: Politics, Culture and History . Michael Roberts. ; "Who Is He, What Is He Doing": Religious Rhetoric and Performances in Sri Lanka during R. Premadasa's Presidency (1989-1993) .

    Article • American Anthropologist, December 1996, Wiley

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  5. Review essay: Nationalism, the past and the present: The case of Sri Lanka

    Article • Ethnic and Racial Studies, January 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  6. People Inbetween: The Burghers and the Middle Class in the Transformations within Sri Lanka, 1790s–1960s, Vol. 1, by Michael Roberts, Ismeth Raheem, and Percy Colin-Thomé (Ratmalana, Sri Lanka: Sarvodaya Book Publishing Services, 1989).

    Article • Comparative Studies in Society and History, October 1992, Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  7. People Inbetween: The Burghers and the Middle Class in the Transformations Within Sri Lanka, 1790s-1960s.

    Article • Man, December 1991, JSTOR

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  8. Apocalypse or accommodation? Two contrasting views of Sinhala‐Tamil relations in Sri Lanka

    Article • South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, June 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  9. A tale of resistance: The story of the arrival of the Portuguese in Sri Lanka

    Article • Ethnos, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  10. Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931.

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, November 1984, Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  11. Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka 1500-1931.

    Article • Man, June 1983, JSTOR

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  12. Caste Conflict and Elite Formation. The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931.

    Article • Pacific Affairs, January 1983, JSTOR

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  13. Caste Conflict and Elite Formation

    Article • January 1982, Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  14. Occupational diversification, pooling networks, and spiralism in the social mobility of Karava families in Sri Lanka

    Article • South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, June 1981, Taylor & Francis

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  15. Collective Identities, Nationalisms, and Protest in Modern Sri Lanka.

    Article • Pacific Affairs, January 1980, JSTOR

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  16. Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka and Sinhalese Perspectives: Barriers to Accommodation

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, July 1978, Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  17. 1970 and thereabout in Sri Lanka: The politics of a general election

    Article • South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, March 1978, Taylor & Francis

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  18. The coastal waters of Sri Lanka and southeastern India

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  19. The Kingdoms of Kotte and Kandy

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  20. Glossary

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  21. Preface

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  22. Some physical features and place names

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  23. Introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  24. The Karāva in the past

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  25. Caste among the Sinhalese

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  26. Economic opportunities and social relations, 1500s–1790s

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  27. Select bibliography

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  28. Present administrative divisions and the contemporary migration patterns of fishermen

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  29. The British period: the economic advances of a Karāva elite

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  30. Casteism in South Asian politics during British times: emergent cultural typifications or elite fictions?

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  31. Causal factors in the moulding of Karāva entrepreneurship and the emergence of a Karāva elite

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  32. A list of caste pamphlets and caste literature in chronological order, 1864–1930

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS

  33. Social competition, caste conflict and manifestations of Karāva power

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr MICHAEL WEBB ROBERTS