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1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I : The Challenge of Societal Reorganization; 1 -- Overwhelming Change and Faltering Institutions, 1948-2002; Part II : Tensions of Class and Caste, Group Rights and Individual Freedoms; 2 -- Religious and Ideological Intransigence among the Sinhalese; 3 -- Religious Ideology among the Tamils; 4 -- Tightening Social Cohesion and Excluding 'Others' among the Sinhalese; 5 -- From Differences to Ethnic Solidarity among the Tamils; 6 -- The Rise of Militant Tamil Nationalism, Its Assumptions and the Cultural Production of Tamil Women. |
| Summary |
Sri Lanka has suffered from decades of ethnic strife which has left in its wake a failure of governing arrangements, skewed distribution of economic benefits, and an exploitation of cultural traditions to divide people. Hence, argue the contributors to this volume, the time is now ripe for the people of Sri Lanka to consciously take up the task of building a new society. At the same time, there is no readymade model that can be applied to Sri Lanka. Instead, this volume explores three elements which are crucial to the process of social reconstruction: a realistic analysis of novel problems, a. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sri Lanka -- Social conditions.
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Sri Lanka. |
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Social conditions. |
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Sri Lanka -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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Social change -- Sri Lanka.
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Social change. |
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Globalization.
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Globalization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hasbullah, S. H.
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Morrison, Barrie M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sri Lankan society in an era of globalization. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2004 9780761932215 (DLC) 2004009286 (OCoLC)55008369 |
| ISBN |
9788132103202 (electronic book) |
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8132103203 (electronic book) |
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0761932216 (U.S. ; hardback) |
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8178293501 (India ; hardback) |
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9780761932215 (U.S. ; hardback) |
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9788178293509 (India ; hardback) |
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0761932224 (US-Pb) |
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9780761932222 (US-Pb) |
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817829351X (India-Pb) |
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9788178293516 (India-Pb) |
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