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Blowback : Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
by Neil Devotta
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Overview
This book analyzes the way ethnic outbidding, initiated by Sinhalese linguistic nationalists in the mid-1950s, led to the unfair treatment of Sri Lanka's minorities and to institutional decay, which in turn mobilized the Tamils to seek a separate state. The author's explanation, based on hitherto overlooked primary research, utilizes a historical institutionalist perspective and encompasses primordialist, constructivist, and instrumentalist explanations to explain Sri Lanka's civil war.
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- ISBN-13: 9780804749244
- ISBN-10: 0804749248
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Publish Date: April 2004
- Dimensions: 9 x 6.24 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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