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Sri Lanka’s people captured the world’s attention when they stormed the presidential palace on July 12, 2022, but the island nation’s crisis began long before then. Professor Nira Wickramasinghe explains the role of colonialism in the country’s past century of history in the first of a special TRNN two-part series on Sri Lanka.
Dr. Nira Wickramasinghe is a professor of Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University. She is the author of several books, including Sri Lanka in the Modern Age. A History, and Ethnic politics in colonial Sri Lanka, 1927–1947.
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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