Sri Lanka :History and the Roots of Conflict

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Author: Jonathan Spencer
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Sri Lanka :History and the Roots of Conflict

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Published: 8 November, 1990

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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.

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ISBN13	9780415044615
ISBN10	0415044618
Number Of Pages	266
Item Weight	476 g
Publisher / Reseller	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format	hardback

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`An important departure from conventional analyses of the conflict ... an urgently needed attempt to de-mythicise the terms of the ideological debate ... stands in sharp contrast to the chauvinism which has afflicted much recent intellectual activity in Sri Lanka.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

`In looking at the sources of current versions of the national past, and the ways in which such versions are disseminated and contested, the contributors have assembled a remarkably broad account of the cultural politics of the ethnic crisis.' - Indian Economic Review

`Accessible to the general reader wanting a refreshingly balanced exposition of a complex topic.' - International Affairs

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Jonathan Spencer is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

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Sri Lanka :History and the Roots of Conflict

Jonathan Spencer

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