Nationalism, development and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka /
Examines the relationship between the ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi, India :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | South Asia in the social sciences.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; 1. Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka; The Ethnic and Economic Context; Concepts and Contexts; Structure of the Book; 2. Sinhala Nationalism; The Study of Sinhala Nationalism; Sinhalisation; A Moral Framework of Regulating Electoral Politics; Elites and Masses; The Language of Political Communication; A Matter of Dignity; An Inverted Left-Right Party System; The Politics of Sinhala Nationalism; 3. Kulaks to Clerks.
- Peasant and Plantation Agriculture in CrisisWelfare Policy and Education; Employment and Communal Tension; Structural Unemployment; Conclusions; 4. The Politics of Market Reform at a Time of Ethnic Conflict; Causal, Functional or Accidental?; The Politics of Market Reform; Ideological and Economic Compensatory Mechanisms; Conclusions; 5. Military Fiscalism; Growth Amidst War; Military Employment; Sri Lanka Integrated Survey (SLIS) 1999/2000; Conclusions; 6. The 'Best and Last' Chance for Peace; The Context; The Electoral Mandate; The Production of Ideo-Political Polarities.
- The Elitist Peace and the Populist War7. Cosmopolitan Capitalism; Introduction; A Party in Reform; Cosmopolitanism; Policy Formulation and Donor Processes; Crisis Overhang; Regaining Sri Lanka; Style and Substance; Conclusions; 8. Sectarian Socialism; Death and Rebirth; Marxism and the National Question; 'The Principal Socialist Party in the Country'; Marxism with Indubitably Sinhalese Characteristics; Class and Nation; 9. Conclusions: Elites, Masses and the Rajapaksa Presidency; Elites, Masses and the Rajapaksa Presidency; Bibliography; Index.
