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Sri Lanka : History and the Roots of Conflict.
Sheds fresh light on the historical roots of the ethnic crisis in the country. Its interest extends beyond contemporary politics into history, anthropology and development studies.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: the power of the past; The generation of communal identities; The people of the lion: the Sinhala identity and ideology in history and historiography; Historical images in the British period; The politics of the Tamil past; Nationalist rhetoric and local practice: the fate of the village community in Kukulewa; A compound of many histories: the many pasts of an east coast Tamil community; Rural awakenings: grassroots development and the cultivation of a national past in rural Sri Lanka.
- J.R. Jayewardene: righteousness and realpolitikNewspaper nationalism: Sinhala identity as historical discourse; Afterword: scared places, violent spaces; Index.