TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tikku, Mohan K.
TI  - After the fall: Sri Lanka in victory and war by
SN  - 9780199463503
U1  - 954.9303 TIK-M 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - India
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Tamil̲īl̲a Viṭutalaippulikaḷ (Association)
KW  - Civil War (Sri Lanka : 1983-2009)
KW  - Ethnic conflict
KW  - Sri Lanka -- History -- 1948-
KW  - Sri Lanka -- Politics and government -- 20th century
N1  - '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  -