Nationalism Development And Ethnic Conflict In Sri Lanka
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Author |
: Rajesh Venugopal |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2018-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108654074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110865407X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka by : Rajesh Venugopal
This book examines the relationship between ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka. Drawing on a historically informed political sociology, it explores how the economic and the ethnic have encountered one another, focusing in particular on the phenomenon of Sinhala nationalism. In doing so, the book engages with some of the central issues in contemporary Sri Lanka: why has the ethnic conflict been so protracted, and so resistant to solution? What explains the enduring political significance of Sinhala nationalism? What is the relationship between market reform and conflict? Why did the Norwegian-sponsored peace process collapse? How is the Rajapaksa phenomenon to be understood? The topical spread of the book is broad, covering the evolution of peasant agriculture, land scarcity, state welfarism, nationalist ideology, party systems, political morality, military employment, business elites, market reforms, and development aid.
Author |
: A. Jeyaratnam Wilson |
Publisher |
: UBC Press |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0774807598 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780774807593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism by : A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
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 |
: Kē. En. Ō Dharmadāsa |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472102885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472102884 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language, Religion, and Ethnic Assertiveness by : Kē. En. Ō Dharmadāsa
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 |
: Neil DeVotta |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804749248 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804749244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blowback by : Neil DeVotta
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.
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Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:2001416269 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Tamil nationalism by :
Author |
: Deborah Winslow |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2004-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253216915 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253216915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Economy, Culture, and Civil War in Sri Lanka by : Deborah Winslow
"Will be of interest to those working on conflict and peace studies, economic development, cultural studies, and women in the modern world. A key new publication." --Chandra R. de Silva, Old Dominion University ..". offers a superb overview of how a civil war, driven by ethnicity, can engender a new culture and a new political economy... Highly recommended." -- Choice Economy, Culture, and Civil War in Sri Lanka provides a lucid and up-to-date interpretation of Sri Lankan society and its 20-year civil conflict. An interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between the economy, broadly defined, and the reproduction of violent conflict, this volume argues that the war is grounded not just in the goals and intentions of the opposing sides, but also in the everyday orientations, experiences, and material practices of all Sri Lankan people. The contributors explore changing political and policy contexts; the effect of long-term conflict on employment opportunities and life choices for rural and urban youth; life histories, memory, and narratives of violence; the "economics of enlisting" and individual decisions about involvement in the war; and nationalism and the moral debate triggered by women's employment in the international garment manufacturing industry. Contributors are Francesca Bremner, Michele Ruth Gamburd, Newton Gunasinghe, Siri T. Hettige, Caitrin Lynch, John M. Richardson, Jr., Amita Shastri, Deborah Winslow, and Michael D. Woost.
Author |
: Jayadeva Uyangoda |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105131697547 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka by : Jayadeva Uyangoda
Author |
: Qadri Ismail |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452906591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452906599 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abiding by Sri Lanka by : Qadri Ismail
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.
Author |
: Partha S Ghosh |
Publisher |
: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Total Pages |
: 512 |
Release |
: 2003-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015058151120 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ethnicity Versus Nationalism by : Partha S Ghosh
This book constitutes a comprehensive and in-depth study of federalism and devolution in the Sri Lankan context. The author leads us on a journey of discovery spanning various phases of the evolution of the problem, from pre-independence Sri Lanka to the victory of the Kumaratunga government in 1994, and its subsequent failure to implement the much promised federal structure for the country. /-//-/How and why the Kumaratunga government failed is the main topic of this book. Partha Ghosh skilfully presents the various proposals of that government, including the draft constitution meant to convert the unitary state of Sri Lanka into a federal one. He discusses the issues involved in the debate and deals with the devolution discourse, both at the political and the intellectual level. The broad theoretical premises that govern the concept of devolution in an ethnically divided society are also examined in detail. The author concludes with an analysis of the current situation-in particular, the on-going peace talks.
Author |
: Jonathan Spencer |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2002-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134949793 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134949790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sri Lanka by : Jonathan Spencer
In the past decade, Sri Lanka has been engulfed by political tragedy as successive governments have failed to settle the grievances of the Tamil minority in a way acceptable to the majority Sinhala population. The new Premadasa presidency faces huge economic and political problems with large sections of the island under the control of the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) and militant separatist Tamil groups operating in the north and south. This book is not a conventional political history of Sri Lanka. Instead, it attempts to shed fresh light on the historical roots of the ethnic crisis and uses a combination of historical and anthropologial evidence to challenge the widely-held belief that the conflict in Sri Lanka is simply the continuation of centuries of animosity between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. The authors show how modern ethnic identities have been made and re-made since the colonial period with the war between Tamils and the Sinhala-dominant government accompanied by rhetorical wars over archeological sites and place-name etymologies, and the political use of the national past. The book is also one of the first attempts to focus on local perceptions of the crisis and draws on a broad range of sources, from village fieldwork to newspaper controversies. Its interest extends beyond contemporary politics to history, anthropology and development studies.