Author: Kanhaiya Lal Sharma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824830168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Since the late 1970s civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis; conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars in the last two decades have thus tended to focus on the state’s failure to accommodate the needs and demands of the minorities. The entire history of the twentieth century has been tied to this one key issue. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age offers a fresh perspective based on new research. Above all, the author has written a history of the peoples of Sri Lanka rather than a history of the nation-state.

Author: Nalani Hennayake
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739111550
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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In this book, Nalani Hennayake unravels how the development experience of a postcolonial society is deeply embedded in a complex historical relationship between culture and politics by focusing on the country of Sri Lanka.

Author: John Holt
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791

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Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.

Author: Benjamin Schonthal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107152232
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law.

Author: Russell R. Ross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: Harshana Rambukwella
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787351297
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the ‘real’ or the ‘authentic’ has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity. Through a series of fine-grained and historically grounded analyses of the writings of individual figures central to the making of Sinhala nationalist ideology the book demonstrates authenticity’s rich and varied presence in Sri Lankan public life and its key role in understanding postcolonial nationalism in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in South Asia and the world. It also explores how notions of authenticity shape certain strands of postcolonial criticism and offers a way of questioning the taken-for-granted nature of the nation as a unit of analysis but at the same time critically explore the deep imprint of nations and nationalisms on people's lives.

Author: Dian A. H. Shah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107183340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

Author: Rajesh Venugopal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428797
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Examines the relationship between the ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka.

Author: Kristian Stokke
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857286498
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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The present book uses Sri Lanka’s failed attempt at negotiating peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to examine the politics of state and market reforms towards liberal peace. Sri Lanka is seen as a critical case that demonstrates key characteristics and shortcomings of liberal peace, vividly demonstrated by internationally facilitated elite negotiations and donor-funded neoliberal development.