Nira Wickramasinghe Explained

Nira Wickramasinghe
Other Names:	Nira Konjit Samarasinghe
Birth Place:	Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nationality:	Sri Lankan
Education:	D.Phil.
Occupation:	University Professor

Nira Konjit Wickramasinghe is professor of modern South Asian studies at Leiden University^[1] in the Netherlands and a well known international academic. She was a professor in the department of history and international relations, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, until 2009. She grew up in Paris and studied at the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne from 1981 to 1984 and at the University of Oxford from 1985 to 1989, where she earned her doctorate in modern history.^[2] She joined the University of Colombo in 1990 and taught there until 2009. She has been a World Bank Robert McNamara fellow, a Fulbright senior scholar at New York University, a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and more recently British Academy Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. She is currently working on a history of the reception of the sewing machine in colonial Sri Lanka, a topic which she researched while on sabbatical at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Princeton University in 2008–2009.^[3]

Select publications

Wickramasinghe has published the following books:^[4]

• Sri Lanka in the Modern Age. A History. Revised edn. New York, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2015
• Metallic Modern. Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka, Oxford: Berghahn Publ. 2014
• Sri Lanka in the modern age: A history of contested identities. London: Hurst & Co. and Honolulu: University of Hawaii press, 2006.
• Civil society in Sri Lanka: New circles of power. New Delhi: Sage Publications, c2001.^[5]
• Ethnic politics in colonial Sri Lanka, 1927–1947'. New Delhi: Vikas Pub. House, 1995.
• University space and values: Three essays'. Colombo: International Centre for Ethnic Studies Colombo, 2005.
• L'Invention du Vetement national au Sri Lanka. Habiller le corps colonise'. Paris: Karthala Presse, 2006.

External links

• Sri Lanka’s conflict: culture and lineages of the past

Notes and References

1. News: Prof.dr. N.K. (Nira) Wickramasinghe. university of Leiden. 2010-03-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20160424033631/http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/staff/wickramasinghenk.html. 2016-04-24. dead.
2. http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Nira_Wickramasinghe.jsp Nira Wickramasinghe
3. News: Prof.dr. N.K. (Nira) Wickramasinghe. tanap . https://web.archive.org/web/20050416231319/http://www.tanap.net/content/universities/counterparts.cfm?ArticleID=236. usurped. April 16, 2005.
4. http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Nira&LastName=Wickramasinghe&City=&State=&Country=&CategoryID=2&Interface=40 Nira Wickramasinghe
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