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049381
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New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2001.
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178p.
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300.95493
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ID:
189713
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Amid an economic meltdown in 2022, a nonviolent citizens movement in Sri Lanka ousted Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brothers from a family that had dominated national politics since 2005. But Parliament filled the presidential vacancy with Ranil Wickremesinghe, a six-time former prime minister seen as a proxy for his predecessors. After a draconian crackdown on protesters, the streets have quieted. But the country’s underlying economic and political crisis, which has roots in the early postcolonial period and the civil war, and was worsened by the Rajapaksas’ autocratic misrule, persists. The new administration has avoided the systemic change demanded by protesters.
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053486
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Colombo, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, 1197.
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51p.
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RCSS policy studies, ISSN 1391-2933; no.1
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9559551000
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| 039158 | 340.095493/WIC 039158 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
093940
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2010.
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Rajapaksa's patriotism merges nation and state, and it promotes a love of country based on a particular reading of the Sinhalese people's foundation myth, a reading in which all other groups . . . are present only as shadows.
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090310
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2009.
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Contemporaries and later historians have recorded that between 1796 and 1800, when the island of Ceylon was ruled from Madras by the English East India Company, a number of violent protests directed against the new rulers took place. These are generally read as a single rebellion 'caused' by the imposition of a tax on owners of coconut gardens, a reading that justifies the often violent counterinsurgency methods practised by the British military and the difficulties met by the British in quelling sporadic occurrences of protest. A critical reading of petitions and other testimonies suggests a more complex and uneven picture, however. It shows especially that the root cause lay mainly in the power vacuum that appeared at the village level after changes to the administration and taxation system. The shift in authority from local headmen to renters meant that peasants could not anymore bring forward their complaints to the government through the official channels. Their anger and frustration led to resistances of different sorts, sometimes peaceful and at other times violent.
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081893
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2008.
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The year 2007 saw a successful military campaign that led to the "liberation" of the Eastern Province by government security forces. The country's high economic growth rate continued despite the war, but inflation and the cost of living also rose significantly. The regime's human rights record came under serious scrutiny
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086679
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2009.
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The year 2008 saw a successful military campaign by government security forces against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the North. Elections to the Eastern Province resulted in a break away faction of the LTTE sharing power with the government. People continued to endure high inflation in the price of essential goods and services, and the country's human rights record remained dismal.
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130204
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2014.
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The year 2013 witnessed a further consolidation of the power of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his loyalists of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance. The country's high economic growth continued amid allegations of corruption and nepotism. The regime's past and present human rights record came under serious scrutiny.
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179263
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa set in motion a process aimed at consolidating their family’s control of the executive, cabinet, and legislature. The global coronavirus pandemic gave them an opportunity to further militarize the administration of the country. The ruling party, the Sri Lanka People’s Front, won a two-thirds majority in the parliamentary elections, which allowed them to enact decisive constitutional change and overturn crucial legislation that curbed the power of the executive. The government’s ability to withstand the economic crisis and control the pandemic will be key to their complete blunting of any opposition forces.
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071947
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New Delhi, foundation Books, 2006.
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xxiv, 360p.hbk
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1850657599
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