The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues that the social institut…
"Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka's War" argues that Sri Lanka's bloody thirty year-long war, fought between the state and the separatist Tamil Tigers from 1983 to 2009, should be understood as structured and animated by the forces …
"Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka's War" argues that Sri Lanka's bloody thirty year-long war, fought between the state and the separatist Tamil Tigers from 1983 to 2009, should be understood as structured and animated by the forces …
Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequently take and hold territory, establishing sophisticated systems of governance that deliver extensive public services to civilians unde…
Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequently take and hold territory, establishing sophisticated systems of governance that deliver extensive public services to civilians unde…
In addition to providing an account of the development of the Tamil nationalist movement and civil war in Sri Lanka , this book also explores the relationship between state power and national consciousness more generally. The author, a doctoral candidate at Colombia University, …