This book discusses the moral and practical viability of a unitary state, in the face of the competing nationalisms, in Sri Lanka. Tracing the events from 1948 to 1991, the author shows how the present crisis is the result of an imperfect understanding of the nature of the nation-state, the Unitary State, and the rights and aspirations of ethnic minorities within a state so conceived a legacy inherited from colonialism. He argues that in Sri Lanka, manipulation ...
