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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Dominant Thinking of Development and Its Challenges | 23 |
Conceptualizing Development | 47 |
Indigenization Power Politics and Postcolonial State | 75 |
Cultural Politics and Rituals of Development | 101 |
New Ideology of Peopleizing Development | 133 |
Culture Development and Politics of Resistance | 157 |
Political Legitimacy to Cultural Sensibility | 179 |
| 185 | |
Index | 205 |
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