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The Material Basis for Separatism: The Tamil Eelam Movement in Sri Lanka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Amita Shastri
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The Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka has aroused increasing international attention. The demands of the Sri Lankan Tamil ethnoregional movement for greater independence from the Sinhalese-dominated center developed through various stages into a call for a separate state in the mid-1970s. This was followed by an increase in the use of organized violence by both sides in the conflict. Most recently, the continued resistance of core Tamil militants to Indian attempts to institute a solution within a united SriLanka has emphasized the independent indigenous roots and powerful motivating vision of the call for a separate state.

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Sri Lanka
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , February 1990 , pp. 56 - 77
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990

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