Sri Lanka--Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy

by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

Book Overview

Focusing on the historical events of post-independence Sri Lanka, S. J. Tambiah analyzes the causes of the violent conflict between the majority Sinhalese Buddhists and the minority Tamils. He demonstrates that the crisis is primarily a result of recent societal stresses--educational expansions, linguistic policy, unemployment, uneven income distribution, population movements, contemporary uses of the past as religious and national ideology, and trends...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226789527
• ISBN13: 9780226789521
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"