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Hardcover:
1995, 388pp;
US$ 25.00 		K M de Silva
Kandy, ICES, 1995

A comprehensive and authoritative study of India’s relations with Sri Lanka since the 1970s and especially of the Indian intervention in Sri Lanka in the 1980s. This book is based on a study of confidential documents relating to the Indian intervention. It is also based on interviews with all the principal figures involved in policy-making at the highest levels in India and Sri Lanka.

Originally published by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. and Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore, this is a special South Asian edition published by Vikas in Delhi.
Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements

 iv
ix
Chapter One - Prologue 1  
Part One  
Chapter Two
India and Sri Lanka 1947-1979; Conflicting Visions of Security
22
Chapter Three
J.R. Jayewardene: A Change in Style and Substance, 1977-1979 		65
Chapter Four
Coping with Mrs Gandhi, 1980-1983
103
Chapter Five
Devolution, Regionalism, Separatism and "Traditional Homelands" 		144
Part Two  
Chapter Six
Mrs Gandhi and the Sri Lankan Imbroglio, July-August 1983
188
Chapter Seven
Confronting Indian Pressure,September 1983 to November 1984
235
Chapter Eight
The Thimpu Discussions and the Delhi Accord,July-August 1985
282
Chapter Nine
Refining the Delhi Accord, 1986-1987
329
Chapter Ten
Conflict and Coercion, January-July 1987
378
Part Three  
Chapter Eleven
The Making of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord:The Final Phase, June-July 1987
419
Chapter Twelve
The Indian Peace-Keeping-Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka, August 1987 to April 1988
466
Chapter Thirteen
President Jayewardene: The Politics of Survival,September 1987 to April 1988
510
Chapter Fourteen
Implementing The Accord: The Last Phase,April 1988 to January 1989 		537
Chapter Fifteen
The IPKF in Sri Lanka, 1989-1990:Negotiating its Departure 		573
Chapter Sixteen
Conclusion
Bibliography 		623
646
Appendix 690


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