Tamil Transnationalism A Convenient Concept

Author : Rajan Mahavalirajan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781449020057

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Tamil/Transnationalism a Convenient Concept by Rajan Mahavalirajan Pdf

The book speaks about the origin, growth and expansion of Tamil nationalism. There were three different players, namely, the middle class Tamil professionals with political aspiration, the Tamil businessmen with capital and lastly, the Tamil criminlas with skills in underworld operation. The leadership of LTTE was a manifestation of joint operation carried out by the above three. The real victims of this war is the working class of Sri Lanka. The role of India in the war is not confined to Sri Lankan modern politics, but it certainly examplifies the omnipotent role of India in the region.

Author : Øivind Fuglerud
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047498160

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Life on the Outside by Øivind Fuglerud Pdf

'The Fuglerud study is a prototype for any anthropologist or political scientist working on a politicised-radicalised Diaspora.' Ethnic Conflict Research Digest'This book about a recent immigrant group (Sri Lankan Tamils) in a European liberal democracy (Norway) is paradigmatic for how the anthropology of a displaced population ought to be done anywhere in the western world. ... Based on extensive field research in Norway and brief but insightful research in Sri Lanka, Life on the Outside is an elegant and effective blend of theory and ethnography. One of the very best in refugee studies to date.' E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia UniversityThis study of the Tamil diaspora is one of the first full ethnographic studies of a post-colonial migrant community, and a major contribution to the study of migration, globalisation, identity politics and 'long distance' nationalism from an anthropological perspective.Fuglerud's study traces the history of Tamil migration, from the arrival of the economic migrants of the 1960s to the 'asylum seekers' of the mid 1980s onwards. He draws unnerving parallels between the status of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka, as a beleaguered and persecuted minority waging a war of liberation, and as a displaced, marginalised and excluded refugee community.Fuglerud argues that, in the process of displacement, particular aspects of Tamil culture - marriage, dowry, chastity and ritual - acquire a heightened significance. He examines the contradictions and inconsistencies which characterise the Tamil refugee communities, and the success of revolutionary Tamil nationalism in exile, highlighting the transnational nature of identity politics.

Author : Luxshi Vimalarajah,R. Cheran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Forced migration
ISBN : 3941514032

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Empowering Diasporas by Luxshi Vimalarajah,R. Cheran Pdf

Author : Mandakranta Bose
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195352771

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Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India by Mandakranta Bose Pdf

This book offers a variety of scholarly studies in the idea, situation, and definition-including the self-definition-of women in India, from the earliest historical period up to the present day. Both in its range of topics and depth of research, this volume creates a sustained focus that is not presently available in the literature of women in India. Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India comprises 25 essays contributed by a diverse mix of Indian, Canadian, American, and British women scholars, most of whom have lived in South Asia either for all of their lives or for extended periods. Arranged chronologically, these groundbreaking essays set aside the myths and prejudices that often clutter discussions about women in India. Part I, which is dedicated to the ancient period, defines women's positions as depicted in the sacred law, considers subordinated women in major Hindu epics, describes women's roles in ritual and their understanding of religion, and examines the patriarchal organization of women's lives in Buddhism. Part II begins with an essay on Tantra, a major force in medieval India that influenced both Hinduism and Buddhism and placed women at the center of its sacred rites. Other essays in Part II look at the life and legends of a medieval woman saint poet, the portrayal of a Hindu goddess in medieval Bengal, and the role of women from Mughal harems in decision making. Part III describes the colonial perception of Indian women in the late nineteenth century and shows how women's self-perceptions have been expressed through their art and writing as well as through their political action in the twentieth century. Providing informed and balanced analysis of extensive primary source material, this book will be an essential resource for students of women's lives in India.

Author : Sivamohan Sumathy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ethnic conflict
ISBN : UOM:39015060766527

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Militants, Militarism, and the Crisis of (Tamil) Nationalism by Sivamohan Sumathy Pdf

Author : Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (Philippines)
Publisher : Institute for Strategic and Development Studies
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law enforcement
ISBN : UCSD:31822034170324

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Transnational Crime and Regional Security in the Asia Pacific by Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (Philippines) Pdf

Author : Javaid Rehman
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841135014

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Islamic State Practices, International Law and the Threat from Terrorism by Javaid Rehman Pdf

In this original and incisive study, the author investigates the relationship between Islamic law, States practices and International terrorism.

Author : Helmut K. Anheier,Stefan Toepler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1722 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387939964

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International Encyclopedia of Civil Society by Helmut K. Anheier,Stefan Toepler Pdf

Recently the topic of civil society has generated a wave of interest, and a wealth of new information. Until now no publication has attempted to organize and consolidate this knowledge. The International Encyclopedia of Civil Society fills this gap, establishing a common set of understandings and terminology, and an analytical starting point for future research. Global in scope and authoritative in content, the Encyclopedia offers succinct summaries of core concepts and theories; definitions of terms; biographical entries on important figures and organizational profiles. In addition, it serves as a reliable and up-to-date guide to additional sources of information. In sum, the Encyclopedia provides an overview of the contours of civil society, social capital, philanthropy and nonprofits across cultures and historical periods. For researchers in nonprofit and civil society studies, political science, economics, management and social enterprise, this is the most systematic appraisal of a rapidly growing field.

Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307375896

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Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Pdf

Winning a Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Anil’s Ghost is another award-winning novel from Michael Ondaatje. Steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, Sri Lanka has been ravaged in the late twentieth century by bloody civil war. Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka but educated in England and the U.S., is sent by an international human rights group to participate in an investigation into suspected mass political murders in her homeland. Working with an archaeologist, she discovers a skeleton whose identity takes Anil on a fascinating journey that involves a riveting mystery. What follows, in a novel rich with character, emotion, and incident, is a story about love and loss, about family, identity and the unknown enemy. And it is a quest to unlock the hidden past—like a handful of soil analyzed by an archaeologist, the story becomes more diffuse the farther we reach into history. A universal tale of the casualties of war, unfolding as a detective story, the book gradually gives way to a more intricate exploration of its characters, a symphony of loss and loneliness haunted by a cast of solitary strangers and ghosts. The atrocities of a seemingly futile, muddled war are juxtaposed against the ancient, complex and ultimately redemptive culture and landscape of Sri Lanka.

Author : Catherine Gomes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811016394

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Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity by Catherine Gomes Pdf

This book offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of communication and entertainment media. It examines the role played by digital technologies and uncovers how the combined wider field of entertainment media (films, television shows and music) are vital and helpful platforms that positively aid migrants through self and communal empowerment. This book specifically looks at the upwardly mobile middle class transient migrants studying and working in two of the Asia-Pacific’s most desirable transient migration destinations – Australia and Singapore – providing a cutting edge study of the identities transient migrants create and maintain while overseas and the strategies they use to cope with life in transience.

Author : Akil Kumarasamy
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374717223

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Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy Pdf

A startlingly beautiful debut, Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ways: following an act of violence, a baby girl is renamed after a Hindu goddess but raised as a Muslim; a lonely butcher from Angola finds solace in a family of refugees in New Jersey; a gentle entomologist, in Sri Lanka, discovers unexpected reserves of courage while searching for his missing son. By turns heartbreaking and fiercely inventive, Half Gods reveals with sharp clarity the ways that parents, children, and friends act as unknowing mirrors to each other, revealing in their all-too human weaknesses, hopes, and sorrows a connection to the divine.

Author : Alan Gamlen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9780198833499

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Human Geopolitics by Alan Gamlen Pdf

Migration has become a top priority for politicians and policy makers around the world, but most writing on the topic covers only half the issue, wrongly assuming that migration policy equals immigration policy where, in reality, the majority of states care more deeply about emigration and the transnational involvements of emigrants and their descendants in the diaspora. Liberal democratic states have long considered emigration controls off-limits, for fear that they violate individual freedom of exit at the same time as interfering in the domestic affairs of other states. But these norms are changing fast: in the past 25 years, more than half of all United Nations member states have established some form of government department devoted to their people living0in other countries. What explains the rise of these 'diaspora institutions', and how does it relate to the political geographies of decolonisation, regional integration, and global governance since World War II? 0This book addresses these questions, based on quantitative data covering all UN members from 1936-2015, and fieldwork with high-level policy makers across 60 states. The book shows how, in many world regions, the unregulated spread of diaspora institutions is unleashing a wave of 'human geopolitics': a kind of geopolitics involving claims over people rather than territory. It argues for the development of principles to guide the future development of state-diaspora relations in an era of unprecedented global interdependence.

Author : C. J. Fuller,Haripriya Narasimhan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226152745

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Tamil Brahmans by C. J. Fuller,Haripriya Narasimhan Pdf

The Tamil Brahmans were a traditional, mainly rural, high-caste elite who have been transformed into a modern, urban, middle-class community since the late nineteenth century. Many Tamil Brahmans today are in professional and managerial occupations, such as engineering and information technology; most of them live in Chennai and other Tamilnadu towns, but others have migrated to the rest of India and overseas. This book, which is mainly based on the authors ethnographic research, describes and analyses this transformation. It is also a study of how and why the Tamil Brahmans privileged status within a hierarchical society has been perpetuated in the face of both a strong anti-Brahman movement in Tamilnadu, and a series of wider social, cultural, economic, political, and ideological changes that might have been expected to undermine their position completely. The major topics discussed include Brahman rural society, urban migration and urban ways of life, education and employment, the position of women, and religion and culture. The Tamil Brahmans class position, including the internal division into the upper- and lower-middle classes, and the process of class reproduction, are examined closely to analyze the congruence between Tamil Brahmanhood and middle classness, which as comparison with other Brahman and non-Brahman groups shows is highly unusual in contemporary India."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : MINN:31951P00978982E

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : PURD:32754079351825

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf