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200 00$aSri Lanka$b[electronic resource] $ehistory and the roots of conflict /$fedited by Jonathan Spencer
210   $aLondon [England] ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1990
215   $a1 online resource (260 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-138-98284-9 
311   $a0-415-04461-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; 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 Kukulewa
327   $a7. 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; Index
330   $aIn 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 a
607   $aSri Lanka$xHistory
607   $aSri Lanka$xEthnic relations
607   $aSri Lanka$xPolitics and government
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