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Bass, Daniel.

Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka Up-country Tamil identity politics / Daniel Bass. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2013. - 228 p - Routledge contemporary South Asia series. .

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

ISBN: 9780415526241 (hardback) 9780203097809 (ebook)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)--Ethnic identity.
Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)--Government policy--Sri Lanka.
Tamil diaspora.
Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)--Politics and government.
Identity politics--Sri Lanka.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Sri Lanka--Race relations--Political aspects.
Sri Lanka--Politics and government--1978-

Dewey Class. No.: SL 140 / BAS