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Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka

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ISBN-10:: 0739111558
ISBN-13:: 9780739111550
Pub. Date:: 08/24/2006
Publisher:: Lexington Books

ISBN-10:: 0739111558
ISBN-13:: 9780739111550
Pub. Date:: 08/24/2006
Publisher:: Lexington Books

Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka

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In this book, Nalani Hennayake unravels how the development experience of a postcolonial society is deeply embedded in a complex historical relationship between culture and politics by focusing on the country of Sri Lanka.

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ISBN-13:	9780739111550
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	08/24/2006
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Nalini Hennayake is senior lecturer at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Glossary of Sri Lankan terms and abbreviations Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Dominant Thinking on Development and its Challenges Chapter 5 Conceptualizing Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka Chapter 6 Indigenization, Power Politics and Postcolonial state Chapter 7 Cultural Politics and Ritualizing Development Chapter 8 New ideology of 'People-izing' Development Chapter 9 Culture, Politics and Resistance to Development Chapter 10 Political Legitimacy to Cultural Sensibility

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Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka

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