Download or read book Politics in Sri Lanka the Republic of Ceylon written by A.Jeyaratnam Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sri Lanka written by Walter Nubin and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the development of a small country, which on the one hand, is unique, and on the other hand, is also an interesting reflection and microcosm of the global economy. Sri Lanka's development is one of the contrasts, complicated by social conflicts and ethnic tensions. Social, political, economic and constitutional developments are considered. This is in accordance with the Sri Lankan tradition of seeing the world as a connected whole. The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon) is an island in the Indian Ocean approximately 18 miles off the south-eastern coast of India with a population of about 19 million. Density is highest in the south-west where Colombo, the country's main port and industrial centre, is located. Sri Lanka is ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. Sri Lanka follows a non-aligned foreign policy. It participates in multilateral diplomacy, particularly at the United Nations, where it seeks to promote sovereignty, independence, and development in the developing world.
Download or read book The Politics of Ceylon Sri Lanka written by Robert N. Kearney and published by Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. MacDonald, an apartment super, turned his building into a four-story farm with hot and cold running sweet potato vines, ceiling carrots, carpets of cabbages, and other farm produce and animals that prompted the tenants to move.
Download or read book Ethnic Politics in Colonial Sri Lanka 1927 1947 written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Very Important Work Of Scholarship And Research Because It Sheds Fresh Light On Some Of The Historical Roots Of Present-Day Sri Lankan Ethnic Politics Through An Examination Of The Last Decades Of Colonial Ceylon.
Download or read book Women and Politics in Sri Lanka written by Sirima Kiribamune and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Download or read book Politics in Sri Lanka 1947 1979 written by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity written by G. Palanithurai and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamil Nadu has been playing its legitimate role in the inter-government relationship on the Tamil issues. The magnitude of the state politics in the problems of Sri Lankan Tamils has reached its Zenith during the past one decade as a result of the eruption of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka. Since Tamil Polity has been fully dominated by ethnic political parts, each one has been trying its level best to project itself as the Vanguard of Tamil Nationalism. This book traces the approaches of the political parties and especially ethnic political parties towards the Sri Lankan Tamil issues. It also analyses to what extent the pressure extended by the ethnic political parties has been taken into account in foreign policy making of Indian Government during different periods. Significantly this work touches a very important aspect that to what extent the support extended by the political parties to help themselves to establish firm roots in provincial polity. This study sheds light on the ambiguous stand of the political parties in Tamil Nadu over this issue which ultimately has weakened the cause of the Tamils and mislead the Indian Government which adopted a tough stand without heeding to the plea of the majority of the Sri Lankan Tamils.
Download or read book The Sri Lankan Political Scene written by W. A. Wiswa Warnapala and published by Navrang Booksellers & Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sri Lanka in the Modern Age written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis; conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars in the last two decades have thus tended to focus on the state’s failure to accommodate the needs and demands of the minorities. The entire history of the twentieth century has been tied to this one key issue. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age offers a fresh perspective based on new research. Above all, the author has written a history of the peoples of Sri Lanka rather than a history of the nation-state.
Download or read book Sri Lanka from Dominion to Republic written by Lucy M. Jacob and published by Delhi : National [Publishing House; overseas distributors: Books from India, London. This book was released on 1973 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decolonizing Ceylon written by Nihal Perera and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government and Politics in Sri Lanka written by A. R. Sriskanda Rajah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic state-institutions left behind by the British Empire, including periodic elections. At the same time, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded in September 2015 that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Sri Lanka committed serious international crimes against the Tamils. Such accusations are usually levelled against authoritarian states; it is unusual for a democracy to face such charges. This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war. The author provides fresh insights into Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government that it has in place. A novel approach to analysing Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government, this book will be of interests to researchers in the field of Political Science, Asian Politics and International Relations.
Download or read book Exploring Confrontation written by Michael Roberts and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Politics in Sri Lanka 1947 1973 written by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of politics in Sri Lanka from 1947 to 1973 - presents demographic aspects and historical background material, considers the political problems associated with interethnic relations between the sinhalese majority and the Indian minority group, and covers economic development and social change, political behaviour and political power, the constitution (comment) and government, foreign policy and defence policy, etc. Annotated bibliography pp. 331 and 332, maps and references.
Download or read book War and Peace in Post colonial Ceylon 1948 1991 written by Adrian Wijemanne and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Discusses The Moral And Practical Viability Of A Unitary State, In The Face Of The Competing Nationalisms, In Sri Lanka. Tracing The Events From 1948 To 1991, The Author Shows How The Present Crisis Is The Result Of An Imperfect Understanding Of The Nature Of The Nation-State, The Unitary State, And The Rights And Aspirations Of Ethnic Minorities Within A State So Conceived A Legacy Inherited From Colonialism. He Argues That In Sri Lanka, Manipulation Of The Media And Misrepresentation Of Facts Have Resulted In The Conception Of Tamil Nationalist Aspirations As Criminal, And The People Involved Being Demonized As Terrorists .
Download or read book Debates in the Legislative Council of Ceylon written by Ceylon. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Expedient Utopian written by James Manor and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without Dustjacket. Condition Good. This Study Of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, The Pivotal Figure In The Emergence Of Modern Politics In Sri Lanka, Makes A Major Contribution To An Important Yet Neglected Period In The Country`S Political History. Dr. James Manor Explores The Personal And Political Dimensions Of Bandaranaike`S Life, Concentrating On The Economic, Social, Political And Cultural Forces Which Had A Substantial Bearing Upon His Story. Bandaranaike Is Assessed As A Member Of That Generation Of Asian And African Leaders Who Presided Over The Transition From Imperial Rule To Assertive Self-Government And Helped To Develop New Modes Of Politics. Bandaranaike Was, As Manor Convincingly Demonstrates, A Tangle Of Incongruities. He Was Both An Utopian Idealist And An Unbridled Seeker After Short-Term Political Advantages. A Scion Of The Leading Family In Ceylon`S Old Social Order, Bandaranaike Was Nonetheless An Enthusiast For Significant Social Change And His Overweeing Snobbery Caused Him To Hold The Island`S Elite In Such Contempt That He Became A Genuine Egalitarian. He Delighted In English Lyricism, Yet He Also Championed The Revival Of The Indigenous Language, Culture And Religion Of The Sinhalese. Bandaranaike`S Story, As Presented Here, Illuminates The Development Of Democratic Politics In Sri Lanka A Well A The Origins Of Current Tensions Between Sinhalese And Tamils, Which Threaten To Destroy Democracy And The Island`S Social Cohesion.
