Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy

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

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Tambiah's 1986 work documented the dismantling of the rule-of-law apparatus in Sri Lanka from the 1956 Official Language Act through Black July 1983. The book is the historical anchor for the /case/foundation civilisational reading and for the /case/suppression analysis of the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam (1957) and Dudley-Chelvanayakam (1965) pacts. Tambiah, himself Sri Lankan Tamil, wrote from inside the catastrophe; his account is one of the earliest sustained scholarly diagnoses of majoritarian institutional decay.

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