Book Description
Includes statistics.
Author : Patrick Peebles
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780718501549
Includes statistics.
Author : Mayan Vije
Publisher : Tamil Information Centre
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780957502352
This book is dedicated to the plantation Tamils of Sri Lanka whose suffering continues endlessly. The term 'plantation Tamils' is used to describe 'persons of Indian origin' who were bought to Ceylon in the 19th century by British plantation owners to work in the coffee and tea plantations. While the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils has received world-wide attention the tribulations of the plantation Tamils remain unexposed. This publication is an attempt to focus attention at least on some of the problems of the plantation Tamils.
Author : Yogeswary Vijayapalan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN : 9780992799700
Author : Walter Schwarz
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Human rights
ISBN :
A long-standing and complex structural problem within Ceylonese
Author : Yvonne Fries
Publisher : Calcutta : K P Bagchi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Yogeswary Vijayapalan
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781515385714
The Plantation Tamils in Sri Lanka who toil in the plantations and make a huge contribution to the economy of the country by their blood and sweat, are the very people who remain the poorest community in the island. They faced numerous problems such as economic deprivation, social neglect and political abuse in the 19th and 20th centuries. Legislative measures soon after Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948 made them stateless and thereafter the community suffered continuous discrimination. The discriminatory measures relate to their civil and political rights. They also suffered discrimination in the areas of employment, education, housing, health, industrial relations, language and trade. Special administrative measures and targeted legislation has been used for the purpose of denying the Plantation Tamils their basic rights that would enable them to lead a normal life with dignity. As a result, the community is afflicted by poverty, ill-health, illiteracy and unemployment in the 21st Century. This book examines the laws, regulations and administrative action that affect the Plantation Tamils in Sri Lanka, mainly relating to citizenship, franchise and language rights. Political events connected with the enactment of the laws are also referred to in the book. Brief accounts on education, health and housing, land reform and trade union rights have also been included.
Author : Stella Hillier
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN :
Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822387549
The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on the other? Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurai’s answer to that question. A leading theorist of globalization, Appadurai turns his attention to the complex dynamics fueling large-scale, culturally motivated violence, from the genocides that racked Eastern Europe, Rwanda, and India in the early 1990s to the contemporary “war on terror.” Providing a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global violence, he describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent about minorities at the same time that minorities, because of global communication technologies and migration flows, increasingly see themselves as parts of powerful global majorities. By exacerbating the inequalities produced by globalization, the volatile, slippery relationship between majorities and minorities foments the desire to eradicate cultural difference. Appadurai analyzes the darker side of globalization: suicide bombings; anti-Americanism; the surplus of rage manifest in televised beheadings; the clash of global ideologies; and the difficulties that flexible, cellular organizations such as Al-Qaeda present to centralized, “vertebrate” structures such as national governments. Powerful, provocative, and timely, Fear of Small Numbers is a thoughtful invitation to rethink what violence is in an age of globalization.
Author : C. Sivaratnam
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN :
Author : Henry William Cave
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN :