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Sri Lanka: The Idea Of Citizenship

Categories: South Asia, Sri Lanka, Ethnicity & Race, Governance, Ideas

Sanjana Hattotuwa comments [1] on the idea of citizenship in Sri Lankan context: “Citizenship is (thus) anchored not to a secular, liberal ideal larger than the sum of its constituent peoples and communities, but to reductionist fault-lines and groupings, based on and fuelled by communal hagiography and the chauvinism of majoritarian politics.”