About the Book: An Uneasy Hegemony: Politics of State-building and Struggles for
Justice in Sri Lanka: 19
Sri Lanka has been regarded as a model democracy among former British colonies.
It was lauded for its impressive achievement in terms of human development
indicators. However, Sri Lankas modern history can also be read as a tragic
story of inter-ethnic inequalities and tensions, resulting in years of violent
conflicts. Two long spells of anti-state youth uprisings were followed by nearly
three decades of civil war, and most recently a renewed upsurge of events are
examples of the on-going uneasy project of state-building. This book discusses
that state-building in