Sri Lanka [[electronic resource] ] : history and the roots of conflict / / edited by Jonathan Spencer

• Pubblicazione: London [England] ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/0095493
• Soggetto geografico: Sri Lanka History; Sri Lanka Ethnic relations; Sri Lanka Politics and government
• Altri autori: SpencerJonathan <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Kukulewa ; 7. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Sri Lanka
• ISBN: 1-134-94979-0; 988-98015-4-X; 1-280-32213-6; 9786610322138; 0-203-40741-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814003903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II