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The kinds of revisions we’re seeing remove the very skills that make historical thinking meaningful. The result is a citizen who either dismisses history entirely or defends it without support.
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The title of the new fellowship grant is itself an important signalling—named after historian Jadunath Sarkar, who was marginalised by mainstream academia post-Independence.
Historians are responsible for promoting peace as well as truth through what they teach and write, but they cannot be effective unless they are supported.
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The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
What nonsense
Sri Lanka’s fossil records of first modern human habitation dates back to 125000 yrs not 70000 (Deraniyagala etal) evidense southern coastal area minihagalkanda area
70,000-7500 we see evidence of habitation in the hills of sabaragamuwa
What nonsense
Sri Lanka’s fossil records of first modern human habitation dates back to 125000 yrs not 70000 (Deraniyagala etal) evidense southern coastal area minihagalkanda area
70,000-7500 we see evidence of habitation in the hills of sabaragamuwa
There on it extends to the plains of rajarata
With history begin at 2500yr mark