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020 _a9780415526241 (hardback)
020 _a9780203097809 (ebook)
041 _aEng.
082 0 0 _aSL 140
_bBAS
100 1 _aBass, Daniel.
_910047
245 1 0 _aEveryday ethnicity in Sri Lanka
_bUp-country Tamil identity politics /
_cDaniel Bass.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2013.
300 _a228 p
440 _aRoutledge contemporary South Asia series.
_912724
520 _aFocusing 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
650 0 _aMalaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)
_xEthnic identity.
_910048
650 0 _aMalaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)
_xGovernment policy
_zSri Lanka.
_910049
650 0 _aTamil diaspora.
_937
650 0 _aMalaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)
_xPolitics and government.
_910050
650 0 _aIdentity politics
_zSri Lanka.
_94777
651 0 _aSri Lanka
_xRace relations
_xPolitical aspects.
_94837
651 0 _aSri Lanka
_xPolitics and government
_y1978-
_91471
942 _2z
_cSR