Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka

by Rajesh Venugopal

This book examines the relationship between ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka. Drawing on a historically informed political sociology, it explores how the economic and the ethnic have encountered one another, focusing in particular on the phenomenon of Sinhala nationalism. In doing so, the book engages with some of the central issues in contemporary Sri Lanka: why has the ethnic conflict been so protracted, and so resistant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108428797
• ISBN13: 9781108428798
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"