TY - BOOK ID - 49961978 TI - After the fall : Sri Lanka in victory and war PY - 2016 SN - 019908677X PB - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sri Lanka KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Shri Lanka KW - Lanka KW - Serendib KW - Taprobane KW - Cellao KW - Zeilan KW - Serendip KW - Sī Langkā KW - Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya KW - Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka KW - Śrīlaṅkā KW - Ilaṅkai KW - Ceylon KW - Tamil̲īl̲a Viṭutalaippulikaḷ (Association) KW - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Association) KW - Tamil̲il̲a Viṭutalaip Pulikaḷ (Association) KW - LTTE KW - Tamil Tigers (Association) KW - El. Ṭī. Ṭī. Ī. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49961978 AB - 'After the Fall' shows how Sri Lankas post-independence exercise in nation formation was beset with using language domination as an instrument of partisan power and racial memories as the way to define nationhood. That resulted in an escalating conflict through half a century of ethnic violence - giving rise to one of the worlds most fearsome militant movements and the cult of the suicide bomber. It analyzes how Eelam war four (20069), which came like a tornado crashing through all the red-lines of a war (even a guerrilla war), succeeded - and at what cost and consequences. ER -