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Author : K. M. De Silva
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824811839
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)
Download or read book J.R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka: 1906-1956 written by K. M. De Silva and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kingsley M. De Silva
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (636 download)
Download or read book J.R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka written by Kingsley M. De Silva and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. M. De Silva
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
ISBN 13 : 9780850524307
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (243 download)
Download or read book J.R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka : a Political Biography written by K. M. De Silva and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he retired at the end of 1988, President J R Jayewardene of Ceylon was probably the oldest living elected head of state in the world.
Author : Jonathan Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134949790
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka written by Jonathan Spencer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and uses a combination of historical and anthropologial evidence to challenge the widely-held belief that the conflict in Sri Lanka is simply the continuation of centuries of animosity between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. The authors show how modern ethnic identities have been made and re-made since the colonial period with the war between Tamils and the Sinhala-dominant government accompanied by rhetorical wars over archeological sites and place-name etymologies, and the political use of the national past. The book is also one of the first attempts to focus on local perceptions of the crisis and draws on a broad range of sources, from village fieldwork to newspaper controversies. Its interest extends beyond contemporary politics to history, anthropology and development studies.
Author : K. M. De Silva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book J.R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka written by K. M. De Silva and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. M. De Silva
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Total Pages : 808 pages
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Download or read book J.R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka written by K. M. De Silva and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791493679
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Buddhism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka written by Patrick Grant and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Grant explores the relationship between Buddhism and violent ethnic conflict in modern Sri Lanka using the concept of "regressive inversion." Regressive inversion occurs when universal teaching, such as that of the Buddha, is redeployed to supercharge passions associated with the kinds of group loyalty that the universal teaching itself intends to transcend. The book begins with an account of the main teachings of Theravada Buddhism and looks at how these inform, or fail to inform, modern interpreters. Grant considers the writings of three key figures—Anagarika Dharmapala, Walpola Rahula, and J. R. Jayewardene—who addressed Buddhism and politics in the years leading up to Sri Lanka's political independence from Britain, and subsequently, in postcolonial Sri Lanka. This book makes the Sri Lankan conflict accessible to readers interested in the modern global phenomenon of ethnic violence involving religion and also illuminates similar conflicts around the world.
Author : A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book S.J.V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism, 1947-1977 : a Political Biography written by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Then in 1947, on the eve of Ceylon becoming independent under a Sinhala-dominated government, he entered Parliament with the aim of protecting the threatened interests of the Tamil minority.
Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190225793
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka in the Modern Age written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the ethnic relations and politics in post 1978 Sri Lanka.
Author : Charles A. Gunawardena
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781932705485
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka written by Charles A. Gunawardena and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,100 alphabetically arranged entries examine the history, geography, people, government, economy, art, and religions of Sri Lanka.
Author : K M de Silva
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351184285
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Reaping The Whirlwind written by K M de Silva and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka In the eighties, Sri Lanka, once considered the ‘model’ colony, was torn apart by ethnic strife between the predominantly Buddhist Sinhalas, constituting almost threequarters of the island’s inhabitants, and the numerically fewer Tamils, who were a mix of Hindus, Christians and Muslims. Massacres occurred after the riots of May 1983, and over time about 1,25,000 Tamils entered India as refugees, fleeing from a virtual civil war which still afflicts the north of the island. The author, a renowned Sri Lankan analyst of global ethnic conflict, discusses the historical reasons behind the ethnic violence, especially the growth of the Sinhalas’ feeling of being a beleagured minority despite their numerical strength. Analysing the present conflict, he shows how the language policy of ‘Sinhala Only’, followed by the government in the sixties, supplanted religion as a divisive factor and how rivalry over educational and employment opportunities fuelled the schism. Bringing the story up to the present, de Silva examines the role played by Indian and Tamil Nadu politicians, and President Kumaratunga’s efforts towards a devolution of power to the Tamil Provinces. But given the LTTE’s acceptance of nothing less than Eelam, he sees little hope of an early end to the violence that has racked Sri Lanka for almost two decades now.
Author : Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791495868
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka written by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-07-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka explores Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalist ideology and its power to shape the identities of Sri Lanka's ethnic and religious minorities. Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalists in contemporary Sri Lanka share an ideology that asserts a vital link between the island of Sri Lanka and the Sinhala people, especially in their role as curators of Buddhism, and often at the exclusion of the minorities. Minority responses to Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalism are manifold, ranging from assimilation to the formation of rival fundamentalisms. The authors provide views of history markedly different from most scholarly reflections on Sri Lanka; thus, the history of shifting perceptions of Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalism offered here constitutes an important contribution to the subaltern history of Sri Lanka. By treating both the development of Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalism in the late nineteenth century and its hegemony in the late twentieth, this study links the present to the past.
Author : Bettina Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134584326
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Anthropology of Violence and Conflict written by Bettina Schmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such as wars in Sarajevo, Albania and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, all aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. Most importantly this volume uses the anthropology of violence as a tool to help in the possible prevention of violence and conflict in the world today.
Author : K. M. De Silva
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801851490
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Regional Powers and Small State Security written by K. M. De Silva and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional Powers and Small State Security recounts India's involvement in the affairs of its much smaller neighbor, Sri Lanka, over the question of Tamil separatists in the northern and eastern parts of the island.
Author : Jacob Abadi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135768692
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Israel's Quest for Recognition and Acceptance in Asia written by Jacob Abadi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Abadi provides an overview of Israel's relations with Asian countries from 1948 until the present, and analyzes the political, social and economic factors in each country and the role that each played in the process of rapprochement with Israel.
Author : Chaiwat Satha-Anand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351476025
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Promise of Reconciliation? written by Chaiwat Satha-Anand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Promise of Reconciliation? explores the relationship between violence, nonviolence, and reconciliation in societal conflicts with questions such as: In what ways does violence impact the reconciliation process that necessarily follows a cessation of deadly conflict? Would an understanding of how conflict has been engaged, with violence or nonviolence, be conducive to how it could be prevented from sliding further into violence?The contributors examine international influences on the peace/reconciliation process in Indonesia's Aceh conflict, as well as the role of Muslim religious scholars in promoting peace. They also examine the effect of violence in southern Thailand, where insurgent violence has provided "leverage" during the fighting, but negatively affects post-conflict objectives. The chapter on Sri Lanka shows that "successful" violence does not necessarily end conflict Sri Lankan society today is more polarized than it was before its civil war. The Vietnam chapter argues that the rise of nonviolent protest in Vietnam reflects a profound loss of state legitimacy, which cannot be resolved with force, while another chapter on Thailand examines "Red Sunday," a Thai political movement engaged in nonviolent protest in the face of violent government suppression. The book ends with a look at Indonesian cities, sites of ethnic conflicts, as potential abodes of peace if violence can be curtailed.
Author : Ian Talbot
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300196946
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern South Asia written by Ian Talbot and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWELVE: Pakistan's National Crisis and the Birth of Bangladesh -- THIRTEEN: Bangladesh Since Independence -- FOURTEEN: Pakistan Since 1971 -- FIFTEEN: India Shining -- SIXTEEN: The Contemporary International Relations of South Asia -- Chronology -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
