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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