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Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

Sri Lanka--Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy

205 pages, 17 tables, 1 map, frontispiece  5-1/2 x 8-1/2  © 1986

Paper $19.00

ISBN: 9780226789521   Published August 1991
Not for sale in Pakistan

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Backdrop
2. The Riots of 1983 and Their Origins: Deep Tensions and Surface Features
3. The Horror Story
4. Probing below the Surface
5. From British Raj to Independence: A Sketch of the Antecedents
6. Two Social Profiles
7. Reflections on Political Violence in Our Time
8. What Is to Be Done?
A Prescription for the Future
9. Epilogue: Biographical Interweavings
Appendix 1: "Judge come under attack": from The Times (of London), 18 January 1984
Appendix 2: The Sinhalese-Tamil Riots of 1958: from W. Wriggins: Ceylon: Dilemmas of a New Nation
Appendix 3: Sri Lanka's Ethnic Problems: Myths and Realities: Report of the Committee for Rational Development, November 1983
Appendix 4: Report Made to the United Religious Organization, 25 July 1984
Appendix 5: Sri Lanka—Who Wants a Separate State? A publication of the Ministry of State, the Government of Sri Lanka, Overseas Information Series, no. 9 (11 November 1983)
Notes
Index
Subjects



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