Colonial governmentality and the political thinking through “1931” in the Crown colony of Ceylon/Sri Lanka
This paper uses the Arendtian notion of the “political” to argue that the colonial framework and modernity have for long overdetermined the way historians have analyzed the “political” in South Asia. Using 1931—the year universal suffrage was introduced to the Crown colony of Sri Lanka—as an entry p...
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| Language: | English |
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Les Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Socio |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/socio/1921 |