Nationalism In Sri Lanka

Author : A. Jeyaratnam Wilson,Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0774807598

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Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson,Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson Pdf

Through a succession of key stages since Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) became independent in 1948, its Tamil minority, historically concentrated in the north and east but with an important segment in Colombo, became alienated from the Sinhalese majority and, after peaceful opposition failed to secure its rights, resorted to an armed struggle. The Tamil Tigers (LTTE) today appear to hold the key to their people’s future. While they have suffered setbacks, including the loss of the Tamil capital, Jaffna, they remain a potent guerrilla force, able to strike with impunity at both military and civilian targets. The Tigers’ grip on the Tamil population seems secure, as does their overseas support and funding from Tamil exiles in Britain, Canada, and Australia. This book offers a concise history of the Sri Lankan Tamil nation, its culture, social make-up, and political evolution. In a final chapter, A. J. V. Chandrakanthan gives a first-hand account of life and attitudes inside the embattled Tamil areas today. A. Jeyaratnam Wilson teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of The Break-Up of Sri Lanka and S. J. V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism. A. J. V. Chandrakanthan teaches in the Department of Theology at Concordia University, Montreal.

Author : Krishan Gopal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052625426

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Nationalism in Sri Lanka by Krishan Gopal Pdf

This Study Examines In Depth The Process Of Transformation Of Sri Lanka`S Composite Nationalism Into Divisive Nationalism, Focuses On The Factors And Forces Responsible For This Transformation And Analyses The Contemporary Crisis In Sri Lanka Against This Back Ground.

Author : A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774807601

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Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson Pdf

The militarisation of the Sinhala-Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka began in the 1970s when attempts to reconcile by peaceful means the Tamils' claim for basic individual and collective rights with the Sinhalese need to allay their chronic sense of insecurity finally failed. Since then the struggle has intensified, erupting successively in the burning of the Jaffna Public Library in 1981, the anti-Tamil pogrom in 1983, and the army's assault on Jaffna in 1995. The mainly Hindu Sri Lankan Tamils have always been separated by language, religion, and history from the Buddhist Sinhalese although the minority community in the island vastly outnumbers the Sinhalese when the 40 million Tamils in South India are taken into account. The author's analysis is informed by first-hand knowledge and personal contact with many of the actors involved.

Author : Rajesh Venugopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108428798

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Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka by Rajesh Venugopal Pdf

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

Author : Kē. En. Ō Dharmadāsa
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0472102885

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Language, Religion, and Ethnic Assertiveness by Kē. En. Ō Dharmadāsa Pdf

For nearly four decades, Sri Lanka has been the scene of an escalating ethnic conflict between the majority Sinhalese and the Tamils, who form the largest minority. Language, Religion, and Ethnic Assertiveness traces the development of Sinhalese nationalism by paying particular attention to the Sinhala language and how it relates to Sinhalese national identity. After Sri Lanka became independent from Great Britain in 1948, an official national language had to be chosen - either "Sinhala only" or "parity of status for Sinhala and Tamil". The victory of the "Sinhala only" proposition that won in the general election of 1956 started the antagonism between the Sinhalese and the Tamils that persists to this day. Using hitherto untapped primary sources, K. N. O. Dharmadasa delineates some of the peculiar features of the linkage between state, religion, and ethnicity in traditional Sinhalese society, providing insight into a tragic conflict that has a long and turbulent history. The book has much to offer historians, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists of language and religion, as well as students and scholars of South Asia, postcolonialism, ethnicity, cultural identity, and conflict.

Author : Anoma Pieris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415630023

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Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka by Anoma Pieris Pdf

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the homeland that give nationalism its imaginative form and its political trajectory. This book explores positions that are vital to ideas of national belonging through the history of colonial, bourgeois self-fashioning and post colonial identity construction in Sri Lanka. The country remains central to related architectural discourses due to its emergence as a critical site for regional architecture, post-independence. Suggesting patterns of indigenous accommodation and resistance that are expressed through built form, the book argues that the nation grows as an extension of an indigenous private sphere, ostensibly uncontaminated by colonial influences, domesticating institutions and appropriating rural geographies in the pursuit of its hegemonic ideals. This ambitious, comprehensive, wide-ranging book presents an abundance of new and original material and many imaginative insights into the history of architecture and nationalism from the mid nineteenth century to the present day.

Author : Harshana Rambukwella
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781787351301

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The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity by Harshana Rambukwella Pdf

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 : Ambalavanar Sivarajah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : UOM:39015038590025

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Politics of Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka by Ambalavanar Sivarajah Pdf

Author : A.R. Sriskanda Rajah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000779455

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Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka by A.R. Sriskanda Rajah Pdf

This book examines Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka and provides insights on how Tamil nationalism has survived the destruction of the Tamil Tigers after May 2009 and continues to thrive, despite the absence of a charismatic leadership to lead it or a centralised organisation to mobilise the Tamils along ethnic nationalistic lines. The ethnic nationalist ideology shaped up by the Tamil Tigers continues to remain the driving force of the Tamil polity in Sri Lanka and the Diaspora. Using a Foucauldian counter-historical theoretical framework, the author analyses and offers answers to these questions: What is keeping Tamil nationalism alive despite the demise of the Tamil Tigers over a decade ago? Why do many Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad refuse to accept a Sri Lankan political identity? How are Tamils able to continue on a nationalist path despite the absence of a unified political leadership? The book argues that Tamil nationalism has survived the latter’s destruction because it has become counter-historical. It is this that has allowed, despite the internecine rivalries between Tamil political parties and Diaspora groups, the Tamil nationalist spirit to remain alive. The author also suggests that counter-history has, for many Tamil political parties and Diaspora groups, become the means of waging war, other than through an armed struggle, against the Sri Lankan state. Based on field research, interviews and documentary analysis, the book provides empirical and unique insights on Foucault’s thesis that power is multifaceted and can function in the absence of centralised mechanisms. This book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Politics and International Relations, in particular those working on ethnic nationalism, post-armed conflict peacebuilding/conflict resolution, the politics in Sri Lanka, diaspora politics and Foucault.

Author : Rajesh Venugopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108428798

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Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka by Rajesh Venugopal Pdf

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

Author : Pradeep Jeganathan,Qadri Ismail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : UOM:39015037322586

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Unmaking the Nation by Pradeep Jeganathan,Qadri Ismail Pdf

Contributed articles focusing mainly on the post-independence political scene in Sri Lanka within the broad framework of nationalism existing among the various ethnic groups during the period.

Author : Neil DeVotta
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804749248

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Blowback by Neil DeVotta Pdf

In the mid-1950s, Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese politicians began outbidding one another on who could provide the greatest advantages for their community, using the Sinhala language as their instrument. The appeal to Sinhalese linguistic nationalism precipitated a situation in which the movement to replace English as the country’s official language with Sinhala and Tamil (the language of Sri Lanka’s principal minority) was abandoned and Sinhala alone became the official language in 1956. The Tamils’ subsequent protests led to anti-Tamil riots and institutional decay, which meant that supposedly representative agencies of government catered to Sinhalese preferences and blatantly disregarded minority interests. This in turn led to the Tamils’ mobilizing, first politically then militarily, and by the mid-1970s Tamil youth were bent on creating a separate state.

Author : Neloufer De Mel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742518078

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Women & the Nation's Narrative by Neloufer De Mel Pdf

This book explores the development of nationalism in Sri Lanka during the past century, particularly within the dominant Sinhala Buddhist and militant Tamil movements. Tracing the ways women from diverse backgrounds have engaged with nationalism, Neloufer de Mel argues that gender is crucial to an understanding of nationalism and vice versa. Traversing both the colonial and postcolonial periods in Sri Lanka's history, the author assesses a range of writers, activists, political figures, and movements almost completely unknown in the West. With her rigorous, historically located analyses, de Mel makes a persuasive case for the connections between figures like actress Annie Boteju and art historian and journalist Anil de Silva; poetry whether written by Jean Arasanayagam or Tamil revolutionary women; and political movements like the LTTE, the JVP, the Mother's Front, and contemporary feminist organizations. Evaluating the colonial period in light of the violence that animates Sri Lanka today, de Mel proposes what Bruce Robbins has termed a 'lateral cosmopolitanism' that will allow coalitions to form and to practice an oppositional politics of peace. In the process, she examines the gendered forms through which the nation and the state both come together and pull apart. The breadth of topics examined here will make this work a valuable resource for South Asianists as well as for scholars in a wide range of fields who choose to consider the ways in which gender inflects their areas of research and teaching.

Author : Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : 0143027891

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Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism by Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson Pdf

In This Informed Historical Account, The Author Traces The Growth And Transformation Of Tamil Consciousness In Sri Lanka From A Movement To Safeguard Cultural Identity To A Political Struggle For A Separate State. He Also Examines The Social And Caste Structure Of The Sri Lankan Tamils And Their Linguistic, Cultural And Literary Heritage. He Describes Their Political And Cultural Activity In The Nineteenth Century And The Expressions Of Rising Tamil Consciousness In The Twentieth Century. · Draws On First-Hand Research.

Author : Qadri Ismail
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781452906591

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Abiding by Sri Lanka by Qadri Ismail Pdf

Ismail demonstrates that the problems in Sri Lanka raise fundamental concerns regarding the relationship between democracies and minorities. He redefines the concept of minority, not as numerical insignificance, but as conceptual space where distinction without domination can be achieved.