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8 - Pillayar and the Politicians: Secularization and Toleration at the End of Sri Lanka’s Civil War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

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Jonathan Spencer
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Humeira Iqtidar  and
Tanika Sarkar
Humeira Iqtidar
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King's College London
Tanika Sarkar
Affiliation:
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia , pp. 191 - 214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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