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Controversies in Sri Lankan History
Author(s) -
Strathern Alan
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00094.x
Subject(s) - historiography , ethnic group , identity (music) , sri lanka , state (computer science) , history , political science , sociology , psychology , gender studies , aesthetics , anthropology , ethnology , south asia , law , philosophy , computer science , algorithm
This Viewpoint gives a brief introduction to the ongoing controversies of Sri Lankan historiography, which the current ethnic conflict has served to intensify and politicize. Scholars of many different disciplines, indeed all manner of commentators, have been arguing about how much continuity can be seen in the nature of the state, ethnic identity and religious identity as these have developed over the last 2000 years of history.