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Autore: |
Bass Daniel
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Titolo: |
Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka : up-country Tamil identity politics / / Daniel Bass
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.89/481105493 |
Soggetto topico: | Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people) - Ethnic identity |
Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people) - Government policy - Sri Lanka | |
Tamil diaspora | |
Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people) - Politics and government | |
Soggetto geografico: | Sri Lanka Race relations Political aspects |
Sri Lanka Politics and government 1978- | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-216) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-203-09780-7 |
1-283-86153-4 | |
1-136-22418-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463148803321 |
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