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



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Autore: Bass Daniel Visualizza persona
Titolo: Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka : up-country Tamil identity politics / / Daniel Bass Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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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Serie: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series