eprintid: 15148
rev_number: 45
eprint_status: archive
userid: 224
dir: disk0/00/01/51/48
datestamp: 2013-06-28 05:53:35
lastmod: 2016-01-14 14:23:42
status_changed: 2013-06-28 05:53:35
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Kumarasingham, Harshan
contributors_type: http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/EDT
contributors_type: http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/EDT
contributors_name: Harder, Hans 
contributors_name: Mitra, Subrata K.
title: ‘The Jewel of the East yet has its Flaws'
The Deceptive Tranquillity surrounding Sri Lankan Independence

subjects: ddc-320
divisions: i-702000
abstract: This article investigates the period before Sri Lanka was engulfed by civil war and ethnic strife and how things changed so rapidly following colonial rule.  Sri Lanka’s independence was seen as a model to be followed in the decolonisation of the British Empire due to the island’s peace, prosperity, indigenous leadership and its preference for British institutions.  However, behind this façade the years surrounding Sri Lankan independence also saw the foundations for the vicious civil war that has dominated all recent coverage of this Indian Ocean state.  This article assesses how warning signs were misread or ignored and how early political decisions in this era forged the beginnings of the future problems ahead
date: 2013-06
publisher: Department of Political Science, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00015148
portal_cluster_id: p-hdpaper
portal_order: 72
ppn_swb: 1652495614
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-151487
language: eng
bibsort: KUMARASINGTHEJEWELOF201306
full_text_status: public
series: Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
volume: 72
place_of_pub: University Library of Heidelberg, http://hpsacp.uni-hd.de
pages: 20
citation:   Kumarasingham, Harshan  (2013) ‘The Jewel of the East yet has its Flaws' The Deceptive Tranquillity surrounding Sri Lankan Independence.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15148/1/Heidelberg%20Papers_72_Kumarasingham.pdf