http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/104 2026-04-08T12:24:01Z http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12445 Title: எஸ்.ஜே.வி. செல்வநாயகமும் மதச்சார்பின்மை அரசியலும் Authors: Ganeshalingam, K.T. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12444 Title: ஈழத்தமிழரின் தேசியத்தில் சு.வித்தியானந்தனின் வகிபாகம் Authors: Ganeshalingam, K.T. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12443 Title: India-Sri Lanka Relations in the Age of Neighbourhood First Policy: Lessons for South Asian Regionalism Authors: Ganeshalingam, K.T. Abstract: This chapter addresses a central puzzle in South Asian regionalism: how India's Neighbourhood First Policy has generated cooperative outcomes with Sri Lanka despite persistent asymmetries, regional rivalries, and competing external influences, particularly China's BRI. Mainstream IR frameworks, focused on balance-of- power or dependency logics, struggle to explain why Sri Lanka has neither bandwagoned nor resisted India but pursued a calibrated, relational strategy. The chapter argues that India-Sri Lanka relations are best understood through Indian civilisational statecraft rather than Westphalian or realist templates. It advances Dharma/Rajadharma as the primary analytical pillar to conceptualise India's non-hegemonic, responsibility- oriented leadership, and Samvada (dialogue) as the secondary pillar to explain sustained engagement, restraint, and crisis diplomacy under asymmetry. Empirically, the chapter demonstrates how India's responses to Sri Lanka's civil war aftermath, Covid-19 pandemic, and 2022 economic crisis operationalise ethical leadership through assistance without coercion, embedded within regional platforms such as SAARC, BIMSTEC, IOR, SAGAR, and the Indo-Pacific framework. As a decolonial move, the chapter challenges Eurocentric assumptions that asymmetry inevitably produces domination or resistance, showing instead how civilisational norms enable cooperation without institutional convergence or strategic subordination. Conceptually, it reframes South Asian regionalism as a relational order grounded in duty, dialogue, and moral restraint rather than material hierarchy alone. Pedagogically, the chapter equips students to analyse neighbourhood diplomacy beyond alignment binaries, enabling them to evaluate leadership, vulnerability, and balance as co-constitutive features of regional order in the Global South. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/12442 Title: Political Development of the North and East Sri Lanka: A Critical Study of Challenges and Opportunities Authors: Ganeshalingam, K.T. Abstract: The North-East is a traditional homeland of the Eelam Tamils. The political fabric that supports language, culture, and economy has been built as a distinct entity separate from Southern Sri Lanka for many centuries. Non-violent struggles and armed struggle have been important in identifying such uniqueness in Eelam Tamil politics. The Tamil national consciousness that must withstand its extension has been facing challenges since 2009. The North and East politics is in a position to face challenges such as the fake left-wing politics of Southern Sri Lanka, the intelligence infiltration of Southern Sri Lanka, the aggressions to destroy the Tamil nation, the distortions that have arisen in the politics of the Tamil National Party, and the interests of regional and international powers. It is the responsibility of the Eelam Tamils to overcome such obstacles and protect their national unity and economic and social existence. The aim of the study is to find strategies to be implemented in the field where Eelam Tamils live and in the diaspora. The study is designed by focusing on direct observation and interviews as primary data and literature published on Eelam Tamil politics and experiences of other countries as secondary data. The study is conducted using a philosophical structured positivism and post-positivist approach and a mixed- methods research types. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z