Bass, Daniel. <br/><br/>
Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka  Up-country Tamil identity politics / 
Daniel Bass. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  2013. 
 - 228 p 
 - Routledge contemporary South Asia series. .
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415526241 (hardback) 9780203097809 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)--Ethnic identity.<br/>Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)--Government policy--Sri Lanka.<br/>Tamil diaspora.<br/>Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)--Politics and government.<br/>Identity politics--Sri Lanka.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sri Lanka--Race relations--Political aspects.<br/>Sri Lanka--Politics and government--1978-
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>SL 140  / BAS