Sri Lanka at sixty: A legacy of ethnocentrism and degeneration

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 46-53

  Devotta, Neil ^a  

^a HARTWICK COLLEGE   (United States)

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