Economy, Culture, and Civil War in Sri Lanka

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Economy, Culture, and Civil War in Sri Lanka EDI T ED BY DEBOR A H W I NSLOW A N D MICH A EL D. WOOST Economy, Culture, and Civil War in Sri Lanka INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2004 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Economy, culture, and civil war in Sri Lanka / edited by Deborah Winslow and Michael D. Woost. p. cm. Based on a workshop held Aug. 25–27, 2000, at the New England Center, University of New Hampshire, sponsored by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-253-34420-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-253-21691-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. War—Economic aspects—Sri Lanka. 2. War and society—Sri Lanka. 3. Ethnic con®ict—Sri Lanka. 4. Sri Lanka—Ethnic relations. 5. Tamils—Sri Lanka. 6. Sri Lanka—History—Civil War, 1983– I. Winslow, Deborah, date II. Woost, Michael D., date HC424.Z9D44 2004 954.9303′2—dc22 2004000692 1 2 3 4 5 09 08 07 06 05 04 That man I remember well, and at least two centuries have passed since I last saw him; he traveled neither on horseback nor in a carriage, always on foot he undid distances, carrying neither sword nor weapon but nets on his shoulder, ax or hammer or spade; he never fought with another of his kind— his struggle was with water or with earth, with the wheat, for it to become bread, with the towering tree, for it to yield wood, with walls, to open doors in them, with sand, to form it into walls, and with the sea, to make it bear fruit. —Pablo Neruda Excerpted from the poem “The People,” by Pablo Neruda, in Fully Empowered, translated, with a new introduction, by Alastair Reid (New York: New Directions Books, 1995). ...