Ceylon : : Dilemmas of a New Nation / / William Howard Wriggins.
The fate of the newly independent nation is absorbing the attention of statesmen and scholars. This comprehensive study of Ceylon since its independence in 1947 provides a case study of the fundamental issues in these new Asian and African nations. Mr. Wriggins, who spent two years in Ceylon, presen...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1960 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (520 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION: THE ISSUES
- PART ONE: THE SETTING OF POLITICS
- CHAPTER II. HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL SETTING
- CHAPTER III. THE ECONOMIC SETTING
- CHAPTER IV. CONSTITUTIONAL EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER V. THE ACTORS OF POLITICS
- PART TWO: CHARACTERISTIC PROBLEMS OF DOMESTIC POLITICS
- CHAPTER VI. RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND CULTURAL NATIONALISM
- CHAPTER VII. THE PROBLEM OF NATIONAL UNITY
- CHAPTER VIII. TOWARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER IX. THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 1956
- PART THREE: THE SEARCH FOR A FOREIGN POLICY
- CHAPTER X. FOREIGN POLICY
- CHAPTER XI. ASIAN SOLIDARITY AND CEYLON'S FOREIGN POLICY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX