While Buddhists all over the world were celebrating 2,500 years of Gautama Buddhas passing in 1956, Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was called then) was sowing the seeds of an ethnic conflict. To begin with, language became the source of conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the minority Tamils, until violence itself became the language of discourse between the two ethnic groups. After the Fall shows how Sri Lankas post-independence exercise in nation formation was beset with using Glaeser |f Edward |i E. |s ed |j Edited by |t Fred and Eleanor Professor |a Economics, Harvard UniversityJoshi Ghani |f Abha |i A. |s ed |t Director for Knowledge Exchange and Learning |a World BankEDWARD GLAESERA0000031002illustrations51212/02/2015BATCH2 |D 2015 03 0924.52Cities, Agglomeration and Spatial Equilibrium," Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008); "Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference," (joint with A. Alesina), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2004)12/01/2015IP73.950.2000World Rights include: WorldECON1830.000Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at the Harvard University. Abha Joshi-Ghani is the Director for Knowledge Exchange and Learning at the World Bank.P4ymakers.N