Table of Contents

Introduction - the origins of the dispute, Chelvadurai Manogaran and Bryan Pfaffenberger; Tamils and the meaning of history, Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam; Sri Lanka Tamils under colonial rule, Sinappah Arasaratnam; colonization as politics - the political use of space in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, C. Manogaran; the Colombo man, the Jaffna man and the Batticaloa man - regional identities and the rise of the Federal Party, Jayaratnam A. Wilson; the political construction of defensive nationalism - the 1968 temple-entry crisis in Sri Lanka, B. Pfaffenberger; the "groups" and the rise of militant secessionism, D. Hellmann-Rajanayagam; the material basis for separatism - the Tamil Eelam movement in Sri Lanka, Amita Shastri; afterword - the future of Sinhalese-Tamil relations in Sri Lanka, J.A. Wilson and C. Manogaran.