The Break-Up of Sri Lanka: The Sinhalese-Tamil Conflict

A. Jeyaratnam Wilson · C. Hurst & Co (1988)

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Wilson's 1988 monograph is the case file's primary mid-conflict reference for the constitutional and political trajectory 1948–1988. Wilson — a Tamil constitutional scholar and son-in-law of S.J.V. Chelvanayakam — documents the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact (1957), Dudley-Chelvanayakam Pact (1965), the 1956 Official Language Act, the 1972 and 1978 Constitutions, the 1958/1977/1981/1983 pogroms, and the Vaddukoddai Resolution from inside the Federal Party / TULF tradition. Cited extensively by DeVotta (2004), ICG, and OISL.

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