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caste-2493	Tilakaratne, Praveen	Recasting the Brahmin: Martin Wickramasinghe and the Epistemic Critique of Caste	2025	21	.pdf	application/pdf	10902	447	44	55-75 April 2025 ISSN 2639-4928 brandeis.edu/j-caste Recasting the Brahmin: Martin Wickramasinghe and the Epistemic Critique of Caste Praveen Tilakaratne1 Abstract The dominant public perception is that caste is a matter of minor and diminishing significance in Sri Lanka, especially for the Sinhalese, who form the island’s ethnic majority. Keywords Sri Lanka, Sinhala Literature, Martin Wickramasinghe, Caste; Buddhism, Coloniality, Epistemology 1PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, USA E-mail: wt295@cornell.edu 56 CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion Vol. 6, No. 1 Introduction: Conditions and Possibilities Questions of caste are seldom raised in the field of modern Sinhala literature.	cache/caste-2493.pdf	txt/caste-2493.txt