The Tamil tragedy : the making of a minority in post-colonial Sri Lanka from the 1950s to 1980s

• Main Author: Sivalingam Brintha
• Other Authors: Tapsi Mathur
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155960
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis examines the post-colonial conflict in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese and the Tamils from the 1950s to the 1980s. Drawing on 10 oral interviews with Sri Lankans that lived in the country from the 1950s to 1980s — 9 Tamils and 1 Sinhalese — this thesis explores the post-colonial state’s...