Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka : up-country Tamil identity politics / Daniel Bass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bass, Daniel, author.

Series:

Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)--Ethnic identity.

Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people).

Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)--Government policy--Sri Lanka.

Tamil diaspora.

Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people)--Politics and government.

Sri Lanka--Race relations--Political aspects.

Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka--Politics and government--1978-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-203-09780-7

1-283-86153-4

1-136-22418-1

9780203097809

OCLC:

820787672