Nadeera Rupesinghe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5667449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadeera Rupesinghe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadeera |
| FAMILY NAME | Rupesinghe |
| SIGNATURE | RUPESINGHE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Open University of Sri Lanka |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Registering and Regulating Family Life
In eighteenth-century, colonial Sri Lanka, the Dutch church kept extensive registers of the local population. These “school thombos” contain individual registration of baptism, marriage, school attendance and death. This article argues that the school thombos reveal moral control over family life by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church, while offering locals a legal and religious identity to employ in negotiating the Dutch c…
Do you know the ninth commandment? Tensions of the oath in Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Colonial agents often saw the value of improvising the corporal form of the oath for the smoother functioning of judicial bodies. In eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, the Dutch colonial government found that potential swearers were mostly nominal Christians who had few scruples about giving false oaths. This subtle resistance prompted the Dutch to make changes to accommodate local customs. Ultimately, the changes were of little use due to the mutual …
Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in eighteenth-century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in eighteenth-century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Le Sri Lanka, sous contrôle hollandais au xviii e siècle, nous offre la possibilité d’étudier l’influence du contrôle administratif sur le quotidien de la vie familiale en contexte colonial. Cet article concentre son attention sur les modalités d’enregistrement par les documents administratifs néerlandais des pratiques matrimoniales cinghalaises. Nous savons, grâce à différentes sources, que ces dernières étaient jugées tout à fait indécentes par…
Navigating Pluralities Reluctantly
This article examines diverse practices in the establishment of marriage partnerships in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, 1 parts of which were controlled by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Family law was an area in which the attempt to transform local practices was conspicuously present, but not fully achieved. Lawful marriage was linked to conversion to Dutch Protestantism and to inheritance of property. In the authoritative space of the provi…
Defining land rights in Dutch Sri Lanka
The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie [VOC]) set up a judicial forum of European and native officials called the Landraad in parts of early modern Sri Lanka. Its primary tasks were to hear certain civil cases and maintain the thombo (land register). The VOC wished to define who could do what in which piece of land and what it could extract in return. This article is a study of land rights in southern Sri Lanka, providing …
Do you know the ninth commandment? Tensions of the oath in Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Colonial agents often saw the value of improvising the corporal form of the oath for the smoother functioning of judicial bodies. In eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, the Dutch colonial government found that potential swearers were mostly nominal Christians who had few scruples about giving false oaths. This subtle resistance prompted the Dutch to make changes to accommodate local customs. Ultimately, the changes were of little use due to the mutual …
Registering and Regulating Family Life
In eighteenth-century, colonial Sri Lanka, the Dutch church kept extensive registers of the local population. These “school thombos” contain individual registration of baptism, marriage, school attendance and death. This article argues that the school thombos reveal moral control over family life by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church, while offering locals a legal and religious identity to employ in negotiating the Dutch c…
Navigating Pluralities Reluctantly
This article examines diverse practices in the establishment of marriage partnerships in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, 1 parts of which were controlled by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Family law was an area in which the attempt to transform local practices was conspicuously present, but not fully achieved. Lawful marriage was linked to conversion to Dutch Protestantism and to inheritance of property. In the authoritative space of the provi…
Defining land rights in Dutch Sri Lanka
The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie [VOC]) set up a judicial forum of European and native officials called the Landraad in parts of early modern Sri Lanka. Its primary tasks were to hear certain civil cases and maintain the thombo (land register). The VOC wished to define who could do what in which piece of land and what it could extract in return. This article is a study of land rights in southern Sri Lanka, providing …
Defining land rights in Dutch Sri Lanka
The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie [VOC]) set up a judicial forum of European and native officials called the Landraad in parts of early modern Sri Lanka. Its primary tasks were to hear certain civil cases and maintain the thombo (land register). The VOC wished to define who could do what in which piece of land and what it could extract in return. This article is a study of land rights in southern Sri Lanka, providing …
Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in eighteenth-century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in eighteenth-century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Le Sri Lanka, sous contrôle hollandais au xviii e siècle, nous offre la possibilité d’étudier l’influence du contrôle administratif sur le quotidien de la vie familiale en contexte colonial. Cet article concentre son attention sur les modalités d’enregistrement par les documents administratifs néerlandais des pratiques matrimoniales cinghalaises. Nous savons, grâce à différentes sources, que ces dernières étaient jugées tout à fait indécentes par…
Navigating Pluralities Reluctantly
This article examines diverse practices in the establishment of marriage partnerships in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, 1 parts of which were controlled by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Family law was an area in which the attempt to transform local practices was conspicuously present, but not fully achieved. Lawful marriage was linked to conversion to Dutch Protestantism and to inheritance of property. In the authoritative space of the provi…
Do you know the ninth commandment? Tensions of the oath in Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Colonial agents often saw the value of improvising the corporal form of the oath for the smoother functioning of judicial bodies. In eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, the Dutch colonial government found that potential swearers were mostly nominal Christians who had few scruples about giving false oaths. This subtle resistance prompted the Dutch to make changes to accommodate local customs. Ultimately, the changes were of little use due to the mutual …
Registering and Regulating Family Life
In eighteenth-century, colonial Sri Lanka, the Dutch church kept extensive registers of the local population. These “school thombos” contain individual registration of baptism, marriage, school attendance and death. This article argues that the school thombos reveal moral control over family life by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church, while offering locals a legal and religious identity to employ in negotiating the Dutch c…
Political science (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Sri lanka (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works)