Crucible of conflict
Subtitle: Tamil and Muslim society on the east coast of Sri Lanka
By: Dennis B. McGilvray.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780822341376; 9780822341611
Subjects: Tamil (Indic people) -- Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District -- Social conditions; Tamil (Indic people) -- Sri Lanka -- Amparai District -- Social conditions; Caste -- Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District; Caste -- Sri Lanka -- Amparai District; Muslims -- Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District; Muslims -- Sri Lanka -- Amparai District; Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District; Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka -- Amparai District; Batticaloa District (Sri Lanka) -- Social conditions; Amparai District (Sri Lanka) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-417) and index.
Table of contents: title: The research setting; title: Past and present; title: Issues in comparative ethnography; title: Views of the Tamil caste hierarchy; title: The Tamil high caste alliance; title: The Kudi in action; title: A profile of the Tamil specialist castes; title: The Moors : matrilineal Muslims; title: Muslim elites and specialists; title: Ethnic identities and communal violence; title: Fieldnotes from the war zone.