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Blowback : Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka

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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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