The Sri Lankan Civil War, Explained

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Primary Sources

Jyotindra Nath Dixit, India's Foreign Policy: 1947-2003, (2003)

Secondary Sources

S.D. Muni, Pangs of Proximity: India and Sri Lanka's Ethnic Crisis, (1993)

Ramchandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, (2007)

Asoka Bandarage, The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka: Terrorism, ethnicity, political economy, (2009)

Robert Kaplan, Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American PowerI, (2011)

Donald Chandraratna, Sovereignty of a Nation: The Sri Lankan Encounter, (2012)

Articles

Neil DeVotta, “The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Lost Quest for Separatism in Sri Lanka,” Asian Survey, Vol. 49, No. 6, (November/December 2009)

Jayadeva Uyangoda, “Sri Lanka in 2009: From Civil War to Political Uncertainties,” Asian Survey, Vol. 50, No. 1, (January/February 2010)

Paul Povlock, “A Guerilla War at Sea: The Sri Lankan Civil War,” Small Wars Journal, (2011)

Sandra Destradi, “India and Sri Lanka’s Civil War,” Asian Survey, Vol. 52, No. 3, (May/June 2012)

Sumit Ganguly, “Ending the Sri Lankan Civil War,” Daedalus, Vol. 147, No. 1, (Winter 2018)

Footnotes

[1] Povlock, p. 3-5

[2] Bandarage, p. 29-30, Povlock, p. 3-5

3] Povlock, p. 3-5, Bandarage, p. 30-3

[4] Bandarage, p. 30-5, Povlock, p. 3-5

[5] Bandarage, p. 35-7

[6] Povlock, p. 5-6, Bandarage, p. 37-46, Devotta, p. 1025-7

[7] Bandarage, p. 46-7, Povlock, p. 5-6, DeVotta, p. 1025-7

[8] Bandarage, p. 47-52, Povlock, p. 5-6, DeVotta, p. 1025-7

[9] Bandarage, p. 53-4

[10] Povlock, p. 6, Bandarage, p. 54-7

[11] Ganguly, p. 79-80

[12] Bandarage, 57-65

[13] DeVotta, p. 1025-7, Bandarage, p. 49-52, 68-71

[14] Povlock, p. 6-7, Bandarage, p. 66-71

[15] Bandarage, p. 71-2

[16] Bandarage, p. 66-8, DeVotta, p. 1027-8

[17] Povlock, p. 7-9

[18] Bandarage, p. 72-82

[19] Bandarage, p. 91-7, DeVotta, p. 1027-8, Ganguly, p. 80-1

[20] Bandarage, p. 97-102

[21] Bandarage, p. 102-4, Povlock, p. 9

[22] Ganguly, p. 80-1, Povlock, p. 9, Bandarage, p. 104-7, 110-1, DeVotta, pl. 1028-31

[23] Muni, p. 31-8

[24] Muni, p. 31-8, Dixit, p. 158-61

[25] Dixit, p. 130

[26] Bandarage, p. 65-6

[27] Bandarage, p. 99-100, 113-5, Povlock, p. 13-4

[28] Muni, p. 52-8

[29] Bandarage, p. 111-3, Destradi, p. 600-2, Dixit p. 161-3

[30] Dixit, p. 183-7, Muni, p. 76-82, Bandarage, p. 125-30

[31] Povlock, p. 14-5, Muni, p. 90-5, Bandarage, p. 130-1

[32] Bandarage, 131-2

[33] Bandarage, p. 133-5

[34] Bandarage, p. 133-8, Guha, p. 590-9

[35] Povlock, p. 15-6, Bandarage, p. 149-51

[36] Bandarage, p. 138-41, 144-6

[37] Bandarage, p. 141-4, 151-3

[38] Bandarage, p. 149-53, Ganguly, p. 81-3, Povlock, p. 16-7

[39] Bandarage, p. 153-5

[40] Ganguly, p. 83-4, Bandarage, p. 156-61

[41] Bandarage, p. 161-4, Ganguly, p. 83-4

[42] Bandarage, p. 164-6, 175

[43] Ganguly, p. 83-4

[44] DeVotta, p. 1036-7, Uyangoda, p. 107-8

[45] Uyangoda, p. 104-5, Destradi, p. 595-8, Kaplan, p. 195-6

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