An anthropologist's early academic study of the breakdown of Sri Lankan democracy into Sinhala-Tamil ethnic violence, written in the immediate aftermath of the July 1983 Black July riots and documenting both the official casualty figures and the higher unofficial estimates then circulating, alongside the riots' role in igniting the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press 1 Publication Year Assessment
Reliability TierA university-press academic monograph by a Harvard anthropologist specializing in Sri Lanka, written within three years of the events it documents and cited across the later scholarship on the Sri Lankan Civil War's origins as a foundational account of the 1983 riots specifically. Sources
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