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Sri Lanka in the Modern Age : a history /

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 poli...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wickramasinghe, Nira (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a PART I. Pre-independence years : changing lives -- Colonial encounters -- Colonialism and constructed identities -- National framings : authentic bodies and things -- Before independence : communities and conflicts -- PART II. The post-independence years : political cultures -- Citizens, communities, rights, constitutions, 1947-2000 -- The search for equality : the left movement and insurrections -- The search for sovereignty : Tamil separatism/nationalism -- Sri Lanka : the welfare state and beyond -- 'Only a great land wounded' : the end of the war -- The post-war state : the making of oppressive stability. 
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