Sri Lanka in The Modern Age

A History

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ISBN:

9780199460861

Publication date:

29/06/2015

Paperback

476 pages

216.0x140.0mm

Price: 995.00 INR

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ISBN:

9780199460861

Publication date:

29/06/2015

Paperback

476 pages

216.0x140.0mm

Nira Wickramasinghe

 Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minority communities, Wickramasinghe places their claims alongside the political, social and economic demands of other communities, parties, associations and groups, tracing their lineages to the colonial period. This paperback edition carries the book into the present, covering the brutal end of Sri Lanka's civil war and the making of the oppressive stability that has arisen in its wake.  

Suitable for: Primary market: Institutional libraries, departments of political science, history, South Asia studies, conflict and peace studies  Secondary market: Students and research scholars of politics, history, South Asia studies, conflict and peace studies; journalists and the generally interested reader    

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Nira Wickramasinghe

Nira Wickramasinghe

Table of contents

 Preface: Identities and Histories 

Acknowledgements 
Glossary 
Abbreviations
 
PART I: PRE-INDEPENDENCE YEARS: CHANGING LIVES
1. Colonial Encounters 
2. Colonialism and Constructed Identities 
3. National Framings: Authentic Bodies and Things 
4. Before Independence: Communities and Conflicts 
 
PART II: THE POST-INDEPENDENCE YEARS: POLITICAL CULTURES
5. Citizens, Communities, Rights, Constitutions, 1947-2000 
6. The Search for Equality: The Left Movement and Insurrections 
7. The Search for Sovereignty: Tamil Separatism-Nationalism 
8. Sri Lanka: The Welfare State and Beyond 
9. 'Only A Great Land Wounded': The End of the War 
10. The Post-War State: The Making of Oppressive Stability 
 
Select Bibliography 
Index 
 

Nira Wickramasinghe

Nira Wickramasinghe

Nira Wickramasinghe

Table of contents

 Preface: Identities and Histories 

Acknowledgements 
Glossary 
Abbreviations
 
PART I: PRE-INDEPENDENCE YEARS: CHANGING LIVES
1. Colonial Encounters 
2. Colonialism and Constructed Identities 
3. National Framings: Authentic Bodies and Things 
4. Before Independence: Communities and Conflicts 
 
PART II: THE POST-INDEPENDENCE YEARS: POLITICAL CULTURES
5. Citizens, Communities, Rights, Constitutions, 1947-2000 
6. The Search for Equality: The Left Movement and Insurrections 
7. The Search for Sovereignty: Tamil Separatism-Nationalism 
8. Sri Lanka: The Welfare State and Beyond 
9. 'Only A Great Land Wounded': The End of the War 
10. The Post-War State: The Making of Oppressive Stability 
 
Select Bibliography 
Index 
 

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