Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy

Stanley J. Tambiah · University of Chicago Press (1986)

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Tambiah's 1986 monograph reads the 1956–1983 trajectory as a process of institutional dismantling of democratic safeguards — not as discrete ethnic incidents. The case file anchors the 1958 pogrom, 1977 pogrom, and 1983 Black July narrative on Tambiah and on the contemporaneous Tarzie Vittachi reportage 'Emergency '58'.

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