{"id":87506,"date":"2019-04-23T14:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87506"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:57:54","slug":"%ef%bb%bf-did-japan-contribute-to-sri-lanka-and-india-gaining-independence-from-british-colonial-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/23\/%ef%bb%bf-did-japan-contribute-to-sri-lanka-and-india-gaining-independence-from-british-colonial-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeff \u201cDid Japan contribute to Sri Lanka and India gaining independence from British colonial rule?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Senaka Weeraratna<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Royal\nAsiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Public Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong><\/strong>Did Japan contribute\nto Sri Lanka and India gaining independence from British colonial rule?\u201d  <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 by<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senaka Weeraratna<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 On<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday\n29th<\/sup> April 2019 at 5.00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

at\nthe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gamini\nDissanayake Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No.\n96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALL\nARE WELCOME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The time\nhas come to challenge the hype that Sri Lanka won independence from Britain in\n1948 exclusively by our own local efforts through an exchange of correspondence\nand political negotiations without any supportive foreign factor. This British\ncentric – friendly narrative is increasingly unsustainable in the light of new\nevidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover,\nit is political correctness and tendency to please our former colonial rulers\nthat has prevented an objective appraisal being undertaken taking into account\nthe external factors that contributed substantially towards the gaining of\nfreedom from colonial rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is\nindisputable that Japan struck the greatest decisive blow ever by any non \u2013 white\ncountry or non \u2013 white people to European power in Asia with the attack on\nPearl Harbour.  In about 90 days beginning on December 8, 1941, Japan\noverran the possessions of Britain, the US and the Netherlands in east and\nsouth-east Asia, taking the Philippines, Singapore, Malaya, Hong Kong, the\nDutch East Indies; much of Siam and French Indochina and Burma with bewildering\nswiftness to stand poised at the borders of India by early 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within less\nthan a decade of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on Dec. 7, 1941, India,\nBurma and Ceylon were granted independence. At the commencement of the Second\nWorld War on Sept. 03, 1939, there was not even an empty promise or hint on the\npart of Britain to give freedom to its colonies.   We were lucky.\nFreedom came to Ceylon on a platter. How?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are\nthe factors that pushed Britain to withdraw hastily from India and in turn\ndiscard its control over Burma and Ceylon having lost the Jewel in the British\ncrown?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Senaka Weeraratna\u00a0 Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public Lecture  Did Japan contribute to Sri Lanka and India gaining independence from British colonial rule?\u201d   by Senaka Weeraratna   On Monday 29th April 2019 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL ARE WELCOME Abstract The time has come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}