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Farzana Haniffa

Analyzing Violence: Sri Lankan State Formation

by Farzana Haniffa

July 1983 has now become a pivotal date in Sri Lanka that many look back on as signaling the beginning of the ethnic conflict. It is seen as the point that exemplifies the breakdown of relations between a mostly Sinhala southern government and Sri Lanka’s Tamils, and the beginning of Tamil out-migration and diaspora. It is also the point when, as Pradeep Jeganathan also discussed, the discipline of anthropology begins...

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