Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka Up-country Tamil identity politics / Daniel Bass.

By:

Bass, Daniel

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.Description: 228 pISBN:

9780415526241 (hardback)
9780203097809 (ebook)

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DDC classification:

SL 140 BAS

Summary: Focusing on notions of diaspora, identity and agency, this book examines ethnicity in war-torn Sri Lanka. It highlights the historical development and negotiation of a new identification of Up-country Tamil amidst Sri Lanka's violent ethnic politics. Over the past thirty years, Up-country (Indian) Tamils generally have tried to secure their vision of living within a multi-ethnic Sri Lanka, not within Tamil Eelam, the separatist dream that ended with the civil war in 2009. Exploring Sri Lanka within the deep history of colonial-era South Asian plantation diasporas, the book arg

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
Reference Books	ICES Kandy First Floor	General Book Collections	SL 140 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	49	K007823

Focusing on notions of diaspora, identity and agency, this book examines ethnicity in war-torn Sri Lanka. It highlights the historical development and negotiation of a new identification of Up-country Tamil amidst Sri Lanka's violent ethnic politics. Over the past thirty years, Up-country (Indian) Tamils generally have tried to secure their vision of living within a multi-ethnic Sri Lanka, not within Tamil Eelam, the separatist dream that ended with the civil war in 2009. Exploring Sri Lanka within the deep history of colonial-era South Asian plantation diasporas, the book arg

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