Up Country Tamils Charting A New Future In Sri Lanka

Since their ancestors arrival on the island in the nineteenth century Up country Tamils have lived at the margins of Sri Lankan society and politics while being an integral part of the country's import export economy. This book focuses on the ways in which Up country Tamils continue to be marginalised, how far they have entered the mainstream, and the difficulties that they have faced along the way. The present moment provides an opportune time for considering the role of the Up country Tamils, and the interactions between majority and minority, and between margin and mainstream in contemporary Sri Lanka. For ten years after the end of the war in May 2009, most political and academic debate and discussion about ethnic reconciliation have centred on a simplistic Sinhala Tamil binary, ignoring other ethnic groups and the multiplicity of Tamil identities on the island.

LKR 1,000.00



Perera Hussein



Adding to Cart... Adding to cart