Exploring confrontation Sri Lanka politics culture and history

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Sri Lanka has been the meeting point of many ideologies and ways of being. This has spelt heterogeneity, syncretism and conflict. In drawing upon the practices of empirical research promoted by Western intellectual traditions, the author demonstrates the strengths of these practices through his contextualised engagement with the pogroms of 1915 and 1983, as well as other incidents, as at the same time he delineates some of the limits of empiricist rationality.
This book is replete with rich ethnographic detail and serves as an exercise in historical anthropology which illuminates Sri Lanka's political culture. It not only opens out the contrast between Western and Indian world views, but also explores the human condition by bringing out the immediacy surrounding acts of victimisation and human beings in conflict.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• IPast and Present
• IThe Particular and the General Evocations
• IA Contrast
• IA Pictorial Prelude
• IThe Religious Circumstances of Political Action
• IEthnic Conflict in Sri Lanka and Sinhala Perspectives
• IBarriers to Accommodation Authors and their Situations
• IThe Asokan Persona as a Cultural Disposition "Caste Feudalism"?
• IA Critique through the Asokan Persona and European Contrasts
• IThe Asokan Persona and its Reproduction in Modern
• ITimes Four Twentieth Century
• ITexts and the Asokan Persona
• IThe Imperialisation of Silence under the British Raj
• IArresting the Drum Mentalities
• IIdeologues, Assailants, Historians and the Pogrom against the Moors in 1915 "I shall have you Slippered"
• IThe General and the Particular in an Historical Conjecture Ethnicity in Riposte at a Cricket Match
• IThe Past for the Present
• IThe 1956 Generations
• IAfter and Before
• IThe Agony and the Ecstasy of a Pogrom: Southern Lanka, July 1983 A