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Sri Lanka : history and the roots of conflict /
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 section...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London [England] ; New York :
Routledge,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the power of the past / Jonathan Spencer
- Colonialism, history and racism. The generation of communal identities / Elizabeth Nissan and R.L. Stirrat
- The people of the lion : the Sinhala identity and ideology in history and historiography / R.A.L.H. Gunawardana
- Historical images in the British period / John D. Rogers
- The politics of the Tamil past / Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam
- History at a moment of crisis. Nationalist rhetoric and local practice : the fate of the village community in Kukulewa / James Brow
- A compound of many histories : the many pasts of an east coast Tamil community / Mark P. Whitaker
- Rural awakenings : grassroots development and the cultivation of a national past in rural Sri Lanka / Michael D. Woost
- The politics of the past. J.R. Jayewardene, righteousness and realpolitik / Steven Kemper
- Newspaper nationalism : Sinhala identity as historical discourse / Serena Tennekoon
- Afterword : scared places, violent spaces / E. Valentine Daniel.