The origins -- Becoming national : Tamils, Muslims and congress in colonial India -- Becoming national : Tamils and Sinhalese in colonial Sri Lanka -- Tamils in the nation : post-independence India -- Nation apart : Tamils and Sinhalese in post-independence Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's civil war : the beginning -- Sri Lanka's civil war : the ending -- Tamil nationalism today -- Appendix 1 : population statistics -- Appendix 2 : Sri Lanka electoral statistics
Summary
Why are relations between politically mobilized ethnic identities and the nation-state sometimes peaceful and at other times fraught and violent? This work sets out a novel answer to this key puzzle in world politics through a detailed comparative study of the starkly divergent trajectories of the "Tamil question" in India and Sri Lanka from the colonial era to the present day
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience
Specialized
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2019)
