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Author : Robert N. Kearney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630396085
Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134355907
Sri Lanka has been the meeting point of many ideologies and ways of being. This has spelt heterogeneity, syncretism and conflict. In drawing upon the practices of empirical research promoted by Western intellectual traditions, the author demonstrates the strengths of these practices through his contextualised engagement with the pogroms of 1915 and 1983, as well as other incidents, as at the same time he delineates some of the limits of empiricist rationality. This book is replete with rich ethnographic detail and serves as an exercise in historical anthropology which illuminates Sri Lanka's political culture. It not only opens out the contrast between Western and Indian world views, but also explores the human condition by bringing out the immediacy surrounding acts of victimisation and human beings in conflict.
Author : A.Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349015443
Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034901010
This Book Is A Very Important Work Of Scholarship And Research Because It Sheds Fresh Light On Some Of The Historical Roots Of Present-Day Sri Lankan Ethnic Politics Through An Examination Of The Last Decades Of Colonial Ceylon.
Author : Nihal Perera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Postcolonialism
ISBN : UOM:39015055209178
Author : Robert N. Kearney
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520331747
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
Author : A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349177189
Author : A. Jeyaratnam Wilson,Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0774807598
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 : Sirima Kiribamune
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : UVA:X004312428
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Author : G. Palanithurai,K. Mohanasundaram
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8172110405
Tamil Nadu has been playing its legitimate role in the inter-government relationship on the Tamil issues. The magnitude of the state politics in the problems of Sri Lankan Tamils has reached its Zenith during the past one decade as a result of the eruption of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka. Since Tamil Polity has been fully dominated by ethnic political parts, each one has been trying its level best to project itself as the Vanguard of Tamil Nationalism. This book traces the approaches of the political parties and especially ethnic political parties towards the Sri Lankan Tamil issues. It also analyses to what extent the pressure extended by the ethnic political parties has been taken into account in foreign policy making of Indian Government during different periods. Significantly this work touches a very important aspect that to what extent the support extended by the political parties to help themselves to establish firm roots in provincial polity. This study sheds light on the ambiguous stand of the political parties in Tamil Nadu over this issue which ultimately has weakened the cause of the Tamils and mislead the Indian Government which adopted a tough stand without heeding to the plea of the majority of the Sri Lankan Tamils.
Author : A. R. Sriskanda Rajah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351967990
The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic state-institutions left behind by the British Empire, including periodic elections. At the same time, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded in September 2015 that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Sri Lanka committed serious international crimes against the Tamils. Such accusations are usually levelled against authoritarian states; it is unusual for a democracy to face such charges. This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war. The author provides fresh insights into Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government that it has in place. A novel approach to analysing Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government, this book will be of interests to researchers in the field of Political Science, Asian Politics and International Relations.
Author : James Manor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521104238
This study of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, the pivotal figure in the emergence of modern politics in Sri Lanka, makes a major contribution to an important yet neglected period in the country's political history. Dr James Manor explores the personal and political dimensions of Bandaranaike's life, concentrating on the economic, social, political and cultural forces which had a substantial bearing upon his story. Bandaranaike is assessed as a member of that generation of Asian and African leaders who presided over the transition from imperial rule to assertive self-government and helped to develop new modes of politics. Bandaranaike's story illuminates the development of democratic politics in Sri Lanka as well as the origins of current tensions between Sinhalese and Tamils, which threaten to destroy democracy and the island's social cohesion.
Author : W. A. Wiswa Warnapala
Publisher : Navrang Booksellers & Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4086541
Author : Nikolaos Biziouras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317805533
At the point of independence in 1948, Sri Lanka was projected to be a success story in the developing world. However, in July 1983 a violent ethnic conflict which pitted the Sinhalese against the Tamils began, and did not come to an end until 2009. This conflict led to nearly 50,000 combatant deaths and approximately 40,000 civilian deaths, as well as almost 1 million internally-displaced refugees and to the permanent migration abroad of nearly 130,000 civilians. With a focus on Sri Lanka, this book explores the political economy of ethnic conflict, and examines how rival political leaders are able to convince their ethnic group members to follow them into violent conflict. Specifically, it looks at how political leaders can influence and utilize changes in the level of economic liberalization in order to mobilize members of a certain ethnic group, and in the case of Sri Lanka, shows how ethnic mobilization drives can turn violent when minority ethnic groups are economically marginalized by the decisions that the majority ethnic group leaders make in order to stay in power. Taking a political economy approach to the conflict in Sri Lanka, this book is unique in its historical analysis and provides a longitudinal view of the evolution of both Tamil and Sinhalese ethnic drives. As such, this interdisciplinary study will be of interest to policy makers as well as academics in the field of South Asian studies, political science, sociology, development studies, political economy and security studies.
Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824830164
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.
