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Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JFSL1; JP; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 147 x 27. Weight in Grams: 534.
While Buddhists all over the world were celebrating 2,500 years of Gautama Buddhas passing in 1956, Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was called then) was sowing the seeds of an ethnic conflict. To begin with, language became the source of conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the minority Tamils, until violence itself became the language of discourse between the two ethnic groups. After the Fall shows how Sri Lankas post-independence exercise in nation formation was beset with using language domination as an instrument of partisan power and racial memories as the way to define nationhood. That resulted in an ... Read more
While Buddhists all over the world were celebrating 2,500 years of Gautama Buddhas passing in 1956, Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was called then) was sowing the seeds of an ethnic conflict. To begin with, language became the source of conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the minority Tamils, until violence itself became the language of discourse between the two ethnic groups. After the Fall shows how Sri Lankas post-independence exercise in nation formation was beset with using language domination as an instrument of partisan power and racial memories as the way to define nationhood. That resulted in an ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780199463503
SKU
V9780199463503
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About Mohan K. Tikku
Mohan K. Tikku, author and journalist, is a former leader writer and foreign correspondent of the Hindustan Times, New Delhi. He also heads the India Node of the Millennium Project.
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