Questions of Sri Lanka's minority rights
By: Jayadeva Uyangoda.
Contributors: International Centre for Ethnic Studies.
Series: Minority protection in South Asia series ;; 2
Publisher: International Centre for Ethnic Studies
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Colombo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Minorities -- Sri Lanka.; Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1; title: Theorising Minority Rights: Limits of the Exercise 6; title: Majority Minority Relations in Sri Lanka:; title: the Colonial Context 12; title: Constitutionalism and Minority Claims; title: Under Colonial Rule 18; title: Critique of Communal Claims; title: in Colonial Constitutionalism 26; title: Debate on Minority Rights; title: During Soulbury Commission 29; title: Soulbury Constitution and the Politics of Minority; title: Safeguards 36; title: Soulbury Constitutional Reform and Small Minorities 40; title: Political Independence and Symbolic; title: Exclusion of Minorities 43; title: After Independence: Shaping of the Political Order 50; title: Minority Safeguards and the Judiciary 57; title: Fundamental Rights and Minority Rights 64; title: Constitution-Making and Minority Rights 68.