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Subject(s)

• Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)—Ethnic identity [Browse]
• Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)—Government policy—Sri Lanka [Browse]
• Tamil diaspora [Browse]
• Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)—Politics and government [Browse]
• Sri Lanka—Race relations—Political aspects [Browse]
• Sri Lanka—Politics and government—1978- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 61 [More in this series]
• Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series [More in this series]

Summary note

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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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-216) and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction: ethnicity at work
• A diaspora next door
• Being a Tamil the up-country way
• Becoming Sri Lankan
• Agency, apathy and alienation
• The coming of the goddess
• Stages of ethnicity
• Home and homeland
• Conclusion: up-country Tamil identity politics.

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ISBN

• 0-203-09780-7
• 1-283-86153-4
• 1-136-22418-1

OCLC

• 820787672
• 897436079

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203097809

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