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  Studies on The Press in Sri Lanka and South Asia
 

Kandy,ICES,1997 (US$25.00) 

Edited by G H Peiris

The essays contained in this volume probe into key issues concerning mass communication in Sri Lanka against the back drop of the changing media scene in South Asia. 

The main thematic concern of the volume is "Press and Democracy". The issues dealt with include those that pertain to interaction between political processes and the media - past and the present, and the regulatory framework within which the media function. On popular participation on mass communication, and the people's participation on the press and its effectiveness, the volume contains a summary analysis of the results of a systematically conducted national survey based on extensive field investigations ( a detailed report being prepared for publication ). As a work of research on the press in Sri Lanka the volume is unprecedented in Scope and depth of analysis.
CONTRIBUTORS
Radhika Coomaraswamy, BA (Yale), JD (Columbia), LLM (Harvard). She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka, and is United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.

K M de Silva, Formerly Professor of History of Sri Lanka, University of Peradeniya and Executive Director, ICES. His major research publications include. A History of Sri Lanka (1981), Managing Ethnic tensions in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Sri Lanka (1986), J R Jayawardene of Sri Lanka: A Political Biography (1994), and British Documents on the End of Empire: Sri Lanka (1997).

K N O Dharmadasa, BA Hons (Ceylon), M Phil (York), PhD (Monash), is Dean, Faculty of Arts and Professor of Sinhala, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

S W R de A Samarasinghe, BA Hons (Ceylon), PhD (Cambridge), is Director, Tulane Institute for International Development, Arlington, Virginia, USA, and former Lecturer in Economics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He serves on the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and is also the founder-editor of The Kandy News.

Gerald Peiris, BA (Ceylon), PhD (Cambridge), is Professor of Geography, University of Peradeniya and Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Sandagomi Coperahewa, Lecturer, Journalism Unit, University of Colombo.

J B Dissanayaka, Professor of Sinhala, and Head, Journalism Unit, University of Colombo. Research publications include National Languages of Sri Lanka: I Sinhalese (1976), Aspects of Sinahala Folk Lore (1984), and The Structure of Spoken Sinhala (1991).

Neeraj Kaushal, Senior Editor of Economic Times, India's premier economic daily, for which she contributes two fortnightly columns. She has done journalistic assignments in Italy, Japan and Nepal. She has worked earlier for Business Today and Financial Express.

P Muthulingam, Chairman, Institute of Social Development, Kandy: Secretary of National NGO Action Front; free-lance journalist; author of Tamil monograph titled Sri Lanka Dravidian Movement (1996), and several research publications in the field of Tamil Journalism.

S Thillainathan, Professor of Tamil, University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka; office bearer of several Tamil/Hindu organizations in Sri Lanka, former editor of Tinakaran ( a leading Tamil Daily in Sri Lanka ); and member of the Press Council of Sri Lanka. His research publications are mainly in the fields of Tamil language and literature.

CONTENTS
The Press in South Asia: Intra-Regional Comparisons - G.H. Peiris

Press and Democracy in India - Neeraj Kaushal

Media in Sri Lanka: Recent Trends of Change - G.H. Peiris

The Origins of Sri Lanka Press, 1802 - 1850 - K M de Silva

Formative Stages of Sinhala Journalism - K N O Dharmadasa

Changing Trends in Sinhala Media Scene - J B Dissanayaka and Sandagomi Coperaheva

Evolution of the Tamil Press in Sri Lanka - P Muthulingam

Contemporary Tamil Media Scene in Sri Lanka - S. Thillainathan

The Regulatory Framework for the Press in Sri Lanka, 1947 - 1996 - Radhika Coomaraswamy

The Taming of Sri Lankan National Press, 1960 - 1974 - K M De Silva

Reading, Listening and Watching:

A National Sample Survey of the Sri Lankan News Media