03235nam 2200613Ia 450 991095479880332120251116143013.01-134-94979-0988-98015-4-X1-280-32213-697866103221380-203-40741-5(CKB)111056485510924(EBL)170362(OCoLC)437078826(SSID)ssj0000250295(PQKBManifestationID)11211332(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250295(PQKBWorkID)10231608(PQKB)10422812(MiAaPQ)EBC170362(Au-PeEL)EBL170362(CaPaEBR)ebr10061055(CaONFJC)MIL32213(EXLCZ)9911105648551092419900207d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSri Lanka history and the roots of conflict /edited by Jonathan Spencer1st ed.London [England] ;New York Routledge19901 online resource (260 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-98284-9 0-415-04461-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Sri Lanka; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: the power of the past; Part I: Colonialism, history and racism; 2. The generation of communal identities; 3. The people of the lion: the Sinhala identity and ideology in history and historiography; 4. Historical images in the British period; 5. The politics of the Tamil past; Part II: History at a moment of crisis; 6. Nationalist rhetoric and local practice: the fate of the village community in Kukulewa7. A compound of many histories: the many pasts of an east coast Tamil community8. Rural awakenings: grassroots development and the cultivation of a national past in rural Sri Lanka; Part III: The politics of the past; 9. J.R.Jayewardene: righteousness and realpolitik; 10. Newspaper nationalism: Sinhala identity as historical discourse; 11. Afterword: scared places, violent spaces; IndexIn 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 aSri LankaHistorySri LankaEthnic relationsSri LankaPolitics and government305.8/0095493Spencer Jonathan1954-141867MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954798803321Sri Lanka4483529UNINA