Culture, Politics, and Development in Postcolonial Sri LankaIn this book, Nalani Hennayake unravels how the development experience of a postcolonial society is deeply embedded in a complex historical relationship between culture and politics by focusing on the country of Sri Lanka. |
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Dominant Thinking of Development and Its Challenges | 23 |
Conceptualizing Development in Postcolonial Sri Lanka | 47 |
Indigenization Power Politics and Postcolonial State | 75 |
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