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

Bass, Daniel.

Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka : up-country Tamil identity politics / Daniel Bass. - London : Routledge, 2013. - xiv, 228 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 61. . - Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 61. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-216) and index.

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.

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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.
Identity politics--Sri Lanka.


Sri Lanka--Race relations--Political aspects.
Sri Lanka--Politics and government--1978-

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