Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Subtitle: up-country Tamil identity politics
By: Daniel Bass
Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia series -- 61
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780415526241; 9780203097809
Subjects: Politics and government; Malaiyaha Tamil (Sri Lankan people); Government policy; Race relations; Tamil diaspora; Political aspects; Ethnic identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ethnicity at work; title: A diaspora next door; title: Being a Tamil the up-country way; title: Becoming Sri Lankan; title: Agency, apathy and alienation; title: The coming of the goddess; title: Stages of ethnicity; title: Home and homeland; title: Conclusion: up-country Tamil identity politics.