Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka : Up-country Tamil Identity Politics
Daniel. Bass
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (249 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction: Ethnicity at work; Culture workers and estate workers; Up-countryTamils and ethnic violence; Ethnography of everyday ethnicity; A diaspora in Sri Lanka; Life in an up-countrytown; My place in the up-country; Chapter overview; 1 A diaspora next door; At home in the diaspora; Diasporas next door; A passage from India; Diasporic identifications; A place on the plantations; The place of plantations in Sri Lanka; At work on the plantations. - Fighting for home and land in the new homelandWorking away from the estates; Of families and fatherlands; Longing and belonging; Conclusion: Up-country Tamil identity politics; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Identity in the diaspora2 Being a Tamil the up-country way; Up-countryTamil ethnogenesis; Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka; A coolie by any other name . . .; Every person counts; From Indian to Up-country Tamils; Becoming Malaiyaka Tamils; 3 Becoming Sri Lankan; Independence Day; The place of citizenship; From citizens to stateless; From stateless to second-class citizens; The place of identity; A place in the up-country; Everything's not cricket; A place in Sri Lanka; 4 Agency, apathy and alienation; National union action and inaction; Agentive moments; Solidarity for a moment. - Tea estates and the stateNational union leadership; Local union leadership; Local union action and reaction; 5 The coming of the goddess; The goddess of the estate; The localization of tradition; The construction of an estate festival; The goddess comes to the up-country; The taping of a festival; A procession of tradition; 6 Stages of ethnicity; Ethnicity on stage; The work of culture; A show of ethnicity and gender; Lines in the sand; A changing up-country; A new drama for a new up-country; 7 Home and homeland; Returning to the motherland; Repatriation schemes; Return to the hills. - 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
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| ISBN | 9780415526241
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