Sri Lanka's crisis: The long shadow of colonialism
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The Transformation of Governments in the Twenty First Century
i wanted to bring up something that you write about m in your inyor book, srilanka in the modern age. The transformation of the state from one based on welfare and reistribution to a neo liberal war state,. accelerated under the administration of inderaja paa. So viewers and listeners may not have known before to day that schrilanka actually has a deep history of creating and expanding social welfare programmes. Having notably achieved universal suffrage all the way back in 19 31, when jim crow was still alive and well, united statesA but i wanted to ask if you could just say a little about that kind of transformation of governments that you noted in the quote that
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