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Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
2013,2012
Overview
Focusing on notions of diaspora, identity and agency, this book examines ethnicity in war-torn Sri Lanka. It focuses on 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 have generally tried to secure their vision of living within a multiethnic 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, this book argues that Up-country Tamils form a “diaspora next door” to their ancestral homeland. It moves beyond simplistic Sinhala–Tamil binaries and shows how Sri Lanka’s ethnic troubles actually have more in common with similar battles faced by diasporic Indians in Fiji and Trinidad than with Hindu–Muslim communalism in neighboring India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Focusing on issues of agency, citizenship, displacement and re-placement within the formation of diasporic communities and identities, this book examines the ways that culture workers, including politicians, trade union leaders, academics and NGO workers, have facilitated the development of a new identity as Up-country Tamil. It is of interest to academics working in the fields of modern South Asia, diaspora, violence, post-conflict nations, religion and ethnicity.
Publisher
Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
Subject
/ Civil Wars & Ethnic Conflict
/ Diaspora
/ Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)
/ Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people) - Politics and government
/ Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people) -- Ethnic identity
/ Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people) -- Government policy -- Sri Lanka
/ Sri Lanka -- Politics and government -- 1978
/ Sri Lanka -- Race relations -- Political aspects
/ Tamils
ISBN
9780415526241, 9781138086531, 1138086533, 0415526248
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