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Some Comments on the Social Backgrounds of the April 1971 Insurgency in Sri Lanka (Ceylon)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Gananath Obeyesekere
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Abstract

Many scholarly articles and some of a polemical nature have been written on the 1971 insurgency in Sri Lanka. Recent studies of this movement (Fernando 1972, Egan 1972, Kearney 1973, Arasaratnam 1972, Warnapala 1972) have helped us to understand some of the underlying political, social and economic causes of the uprising. These articles have dispelled early speculations regarding the social backgrounds of the insurgents, particularly by government apologists and theoreticians from the traditional left parties of Sri Lanka.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , May 1974 , pp. 367 - 384
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974

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