Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History

Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History

Author
Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Page
416
ISBN
9780190225797,0190225793
File Type
epub
File Size
2.3 MiB

Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minority communities, Wickramasinghe places their claims alongside the political, social and economic demands of other communities, parties, associations and groups, tracing their lineages to the colonial period. This updated second edition carries the book into the present, covering the brutal end of Sri Lanka's civil war and the making of oppressive stability that has grown in its wake.

Drawing on recent work as well as on her own research in the field, Wickramasinghe has written above all a history of the people of Sri Lanka rather than a history of the nation-state.

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