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Producing the Present
History as Heritage in Post-War Patriotic Sri Lanka
Author : Wickramasinghe, Nira
Publisher: International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES)
Place of Publish: Sri Lanka, Colombo
Year: 2012
Page Numbers: 29
Acc. No: 4331
Class No: 303.66 WIC-SL
Category: Books & Reports
Subjects: Conflict Resolution/War and Peace
Type of Resource: Monograph
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-955-580-127-0
This paper explores the consolidation by a patriotic post-conflict state of a notion of history reinvented as national heritage. The distinction between history as an analysis of the past and heritage was rarely made explicit in the public discourse of Sri Lanka. After the war ended, the distinction disappeared entirely except in some rare university history departments. Heritage is best understood as a claim, a special pleading.
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