Sectarian Socialism: The Politics of Sri Lanka’s Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), by Rajesh Venugopal – 27 July 2009

Rajesh Venugopal is Associate Professor at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He researches the politics of development and ethnic conflict, particularly with reference to South Asia. He has written on ethnocracy, neoliberalism, natural disasters, mass panics, and political sensitivity in development projects. He is the author of ‘Nationalism, Development, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka’ (CUP 2018).

This article was first published in Modern Asian Studies 44, 3 (2010) pp. 567–602.

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