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:
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:
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.
Download or read book J R Jayewardene of Sri Lanka written by Kingsley M. De Silva and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book J R Jayewardene of Sri Lanka 1906 1956 written by K. M. De Silva and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Download or read book President J R Jayewardene on National and International Affairs written by Junius Richard Jayewardene and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Premadasa of Sri Lanka written by Bradman Weerakoon and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1992 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Biography Describes The Rivetting Story Of Ranasinghe Prema Dasa, A Unique Man Who Had Made It To The Top, And His Mission To Transform Sri Lanka And Extend Its Influence Tothe World Outside. Slightly Shop-Worn But In Excellent Condition Otherwise.
Download or read book J R Jayewardene of Sri Lanka written by I. D. S. A. Dissanayaka and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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.
Download or read book Selected Speeches of President J R Jayewardene written by Junius Richard Jayewardene and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of speeches of the former President of Sri Lanka.
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.
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.
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.
