HIS 4175 Selected Documents
Course Description: This course introduces students to documents that are used as sources of information in the field of history of Sri Lanka. Documents ranging from early Brahmi inscriptions to those produced in the early twentieth century, both traditional and non-traditional in nature, will be analysed in this course. Students will be trained not only […]
HIS 3272 History of Colonialism in Sri Lanka II
Course Description: This course addresses the structural changes that came about under British domination from the 1832 Colebrook-Cameron reforms up to the independence in 1948. Hence, this course discusses issues such as the emergence of new identities and identity politics, new religious practices and their consequences, landscape changes and ordering the space, economic changes and […]
HIS 3268 Gender/ Nation and Ideology
Course Description: This course is designed to explore the nexus between the social construction of gender, embracing the concept of nation and its ideology within colonial, nationalist and postcolonial contexts. Using a variety of historical and theoretical material, this course will address how sexual differences operate in various contexts such as colonialism and nation building, […]
HIS 3267 East and South East Asia: Political Economic and Cultural Change
Course Description: This course will introduce students to the historical developments in the regions called the Far East and South East Asia. It will discuss these regions’ pre-colonial history as a general Course Description to the course and will discuss the subsequent history in detail. Learning Objectives: This course expects to provide an in-depth insight […]
HIS 3266 Sri Lanka in the Pre Modern times II
Course Description: This course will discuss various historical processes of Sri Lanka from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. It will focus on demographic, political and cultural developments after the collapse of Rajarata society, the evolution of major post Rajarata polities, and in particular, the rise of Jaffna and Kotte and Kanda Udarata. It will […]
HIS 3171 Themes in History of the Middle East
Course Description: This course treats the emergence of the modern Middle East from the late 18th century to the present. It deals with reformist attempts to meet the European challenge, the age of colonialism, the rise of Nationalism, development strategies of Socialism and Capitalism, the impact of Israeli and Palestinian Nationalism, the petroleum factor, the […]
HIS 3170 Themes of Indian History
Course Description: This course is designed to give students a broader understanding of the historical development of the Indian subcontinent from early stages of the state formation. This will allow students to grasp the historical nexus between India and Sri Lanka from its pre- colonial past to the modern age. The course introduces major themes […]
HIS 3169 African History up to 1870
Course Description: This course covers the period of African history up to 1870. It will examine the human activities in Africa before its encounters with European colonial powers by analysing the history of the northern, western, eastern, central and southern Africa states before 1870. This course focuses on how, through trade and religious activities, Africa […]
HIS 3164 History of Capitalism
Course Description: This course will examine the origins and development of capitalism in the western world and the US, and how it expanded to the rest of world and ultimately shaped the world’s economy and politics. It will pay attention to the development of capitalism as an economic system and major factor of the social […]
HIS 2239 History of the Americas
Course Description: This course will examine the history of the American continent since the arrival of the Europeans. Beginning with a brief discussion of the pre-colonial social formations in the continent it will explain the changes that took place after the European interventions and how the nations have been shaped and reshaped in colonial and […]