Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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Review by Anushka Kahandagamage
The idea of slavery has a long history though it is not an issue that registers routinely in South Asian memory. This is mostly because narratives of the South Asian enslaved have become a blind spot in history. I was fascinated to read Nira Wickramasinghe’s recent book Slave in the Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka (2020), where she discusses the...
