Download or read book Sri Lanka Ceylon Since Independence 1948 1976 written by Daya De Silva and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parties and Political Change in South Asia written by James Chiriyankandath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past seven decades and more political parties have become an essential feature of the political landscape of the South Asian subcontinent, serving both as a conduit and product of the tumultuous change the region has experienced. Yet they have not been the focus of sustained scholarly attention. This collection focuses on different aspects of how major parties have been agents of - and subject to - change in three South Asian states (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), examining some of the apparent paradoxes of politics in the subcontinent and covering issues such as gender, religion, patronage, clientelism, political recruitment and democratic regression. Recurring themes are the importance of personalities (and the corresponding neglect of institutionalisation) and the lack of pluralism in intraparty affairs, factors that render parties and political systems vulnerable to degeneration. This book was published as a special issue of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.
Download or read book Area Handbook for Ceylon written by Richard F. Nyrop and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law written by K. Zweigert and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Sales rights in German-speaking countries, Eastern Europe, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, South and Central America
Download or read book Constitution making in Asia written by H. Kumarasingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariably the indigenous elites drew upon British constitutional ideas and institutions regardless of the political conditions that prevailed in their very different lands. Many Asian nations called upon the services of Englishman and Law Professor Sir Ivor Jennings to advise or assist their own constitution making. Although he was one of the twentieth century’s most prominent constitutional scholars, his opinion and influence were often controversial and remain so due to his advocating British norms in Asian form. This book examines the process of constitutional formation in the era of decolonisation and state building in Asia. It sheds light upon the influence and participation of Jennings in particular and British ideas in general on democracy and institutions across the Asian continent. Critical cases studies on India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Nepal – all linked by Britain and Jennings – assess the distinctive methods and outcomes of constitution making and how British ideas fared in these major states. The book offers chapters on the Westminster model in Asia, Human Rights, Nationalism, Ethnic politics, Federalism, Foreign influence, Decolonisation, Authoritarianism, the Rule of Law, Parliamentary democracy and the power and influence of key political actors. Taking an original stance on constitution making in Asia after British rule, it also puts forward ideas of contemporary significance for Asian states and other emerging democracies engaged in constitution making, regime change and seeking to understand their colonial past. The first political, historical or constitutional analysis comparing Asia’s experience with its indelible British constitutional legacy, this book is a critical resource on state building and constitution making in Asia following independence. It will appeal to students and scholars of world history, public law and politics.
Download or read book Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka written by Chelvadurai Manogaran and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns the treatment of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.
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Download or read book Bills of Rights and Decolonization written by Charles Parkinson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bills of Rights and Decolonization analyzes the British Government's radical change in policy during the late 1950s on the use of bills of rights in colonial territories nearing independence. More broadly it explores the political dimensions of securing the protection of human rights at independence and the peaceful transfer of power through constitutional means. This book fills a major gap in the literature on British and Commonwealth law, history, and politics by documenting how bills of rights became commonplace in Britain's former overseas territories. It provides a detailed empirical account of the origins of the bills of rights in Britain's former colonial territories in Africa, the West Indies and South East Asia as well as in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It sheds light on the development of legal systems at the point of gaining independence and raises questions about the colonial influence on the British legal establishment's change in attitude towards bills of rights in the late twentieth century. It presents an alternative perspective on the end of Empire by focusing upon one aspect of constitutional decolonization and the importance of the local legal culture in determining each dependency's constitutional settlement and provides a series of empirical case studies on the incorporation of human rights instruments into domestic constitutions when negotiated between a state and its dependencies. More generally this book highlights Britain's human rights legacy to its former Empire, and traces the genesis of the bills of rights of over thirty nations from the Commonwealth.
Download or read book International Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 External Research Reports written by United States Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 .
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Download or read book Sri Lanka Since Independence written by Daya De Silva and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Update of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) since independence (1948-1974) : a bibliographical survey of the literature in Sri Lanka in the field of social sciences.
