Government And Politics In Sri Lanka

Author : A. R. Sriskanda Rajah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351968009
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government and Politics in Sri Lanka written by A. R. Sriskanda Rajah and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic state-institutions left behind by the British Empire, including periodic elections. At the same time, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded in September 2015 that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Sri Lanka committed serious international crimes against the Tamils. Such accusations are usually levelled against authoritarian states; it is unusual for a democracy to face such charges. This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war. The author provides fresh insights into Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government that it has in place. A novel approach to analysing Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government, this book will be of interests to researchers in the field of Political Science, Asian Politics and International Relations.

Author : G. Palanithurai
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788172110406
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity written by G. Palanithurai and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamil Nadu has been playing its legitimate role in the inter-government relationship on the Tamil issues. The magnitude of the state politics in the problems of Sri Lankan Tamils has reached its Zenith during the past one decade as a result of the eruption of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka. Since Tamil Polity has been fully dominated by ethnic political parts, each one has been trying its level best to project itself as the Vanguard of Tamil Nationalism. This book traces the approaches of the political parties and especially ethnic political parties towards the Sri Lankan Tamil issues. It also analyses to what extent the pressure extended by the ethnic political parties has been taken into account in foreign policy making of Indian Government during different periods. Significantly this work touches a very important aspect that to what extent the support extended by the political parties to help themselves to establish firm roots in provincial polity. This study sheds light on the ambiguous stand of the political parties in Tamil Nadu over this issue which ultimately has weakened the cause of the Tamils and mislead the Indian Government which adopted a tough stand without heeding to the plea of the majority of the Sri Lankan Tamils.

Author : A. R. Sriskanda Rajah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351967991
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government and Politics in Sri Lanka written by A. R. Sriskanda Rajah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was one of the few Asian colonies in which the British Empire experimented liberal state-building in the nineteenth century, and where many British colonial officials predicted that the independent state would become a liberal democratic success story. Sri Lanka has held on to much of the liberal democratic state-institutions left behind by the British Empire, including periodic elections. At the same time, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded in September 2015 that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Sri Lanka committed serious international crimes against the Tamils. Such accusations are usually levelled against authoritarian states; it is unusual for a democracy to face such charges. This book analyses where Sri Lanka stands as a state that has in place liberal democratic state-institutions but exhibits the characteristics of an authoritarian state. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the author argues that Sri Lanka enacted racist legislations and perpetrated mass-atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalising and securing a Sinhala-Buddhist ethnocratic state-order. The book also explores the ways that, apart from military action, power relations produce the effects of battle, and thus the way that peace can often become a means of waging war. The author provides fresh insights into Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government that it has in place. A novel approach to analysing Sri Lanka’s postcolonial policies and the system of government, this book will be of interests to researchers in the field of Political Science, Asian Politics and International Relations.

Author : V. Grover
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788171009404
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sri Lanka : Government And Politics written by V. Grover and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mick Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521265508
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka written by Mick Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-11-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources. Sri Lanka has more than fifty years' history of pluralist democracy and such issues directly affect the interests of the smallholder population. Yet successive Sri Lankan governments have pursued economic policies favouring food consumers and the state itself at the expense of agricultural producers. In exploring the features of Sri Lanka's history, geography, politics and economy which explain this paradox, the author looks in detail at some of the dominant features of contemporary Sri Lanka: the political consequences of the plantation experience; the persistence of elite political leadership; and the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict.

Author : A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349177180
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in Sri Lanka, 1947-1979 written by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sirima Kiribamune
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Politics in Sri Lanka written by Sirima Kiribamune and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Author : Kristian Stokke
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857286498
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberal Peace In Question written by Kristian Stokke and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book uses Sri Lanka’s failed attempt at negotiating peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to examine the politics of state and market reforms towards liberal peace. Sri Lanka is seen as a critical case that demonstrates key characteristics and shortcomings of liberal peace, vividly demonstrated by internationally facilitated elite negotiations and donor-funded neoliberal development.

Author : W. A. Wiswa Warnapala
Publisher : Navrang Booksellers & Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sri Lankan Political Scene written by W. A. Wiswa Warnapala and published by Navrang Booksellers & Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A.Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134901544X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in Sri Lanka, the Republic of Ceylon written by A.Jeyaratnam Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: