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In 2006 dejected members of the Bukit Jalil Estate community faced eviction from their homes in Kuala Lumpur where they had lived for generations. City officials classified plantation residents as squatters and, unaware of years of toil, attachment to the land, and past official promises, questioned any right they might have to stay, wondering "How can there be a plantation in Kuala Lumpur?"This story epitomizes the dilemma faced by Malaysian Tamils in recent years as they confront the moment when the plantation system where they have lived and worked for generations finally collapses. Foreign workers from Indonesia and Bangladesh have been brought in to replace Tamil workers to cut labor costs. As the new migrant workers do not bring their whole families with them, the community structures-schools, temples, churches, community halls, recreational fields-need no longer be sustained, allowing more land to be converted to mechanized palm oil production or lucrative housing developments. In short, the old, long-term community-based model of rubber plantation production introduced by British and French companies in colonial Malaya has been replaced by a model based upon migrant labor, mechanization, and a gradual contraction of the plantation economy. Tamils find themselves increasingly resentful of the fact that lands that were developed and populated by their ancestors are now claimed by Malays as their own; and that the land use patterns in these new townships, are increasingly hostile to the most symbolic vestiges of the Tamil and Hindu presence, the temples. In addition to issues pertaining to land, legal cases surrounding religious conversion have exacerbated a sense of insecurity among Tamil Hindus. Based on seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork, this compelling book is about much more than the fast-approaching end to a way of life. Tamils and the Haunting of Justice addresses critical issues in the study of race and ethnicity. It is a study of how notions of justice, as imagined by an aggrieved minority, complicate legal demarcations of ethnic difference in post colonial states. Through its ethnographic breadth, it demonstrates which strategies, as enacted by local communities in conjunction with NGOs and legal advisors/activists, have been most "successful" in navigating the legal and political system of ethnic entitlement and compensation. It shows how, through a variety of strategies, Tamils try to access justice beyond the law-sometimes by using the law, and sometimes by turning to religious symbols and rituals in the murky space between law and justice. The book will thus appeal not only to scholars of Southeast Asia and the Indian diaspora, but also to ethnic studies and development scholars and those interested in postcolonial nationalism.

Tamil (Indic people) --- Plantation workers --- Agricultural laborers --- Ethnology --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Land tenure --- Relocation --- Government policy

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The book details the potential of computer mediated technologies, particularly the internet, in creation and nurturing political and cultural identities among the widely dispersed "conflict-generated" Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora and traces the engagement of the disapora in Australia Other the online media in the struggle for a homeland. Taking the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka as a given, the book explores the way in which new media have added dimensions to the issue. Although the theoretical framew...

Tamil (Indic people) --- Internet --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Political activity --- Political aspects --- Sri Lanka --- Politics and government

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Tamil (Indic people) --- Social ecology --- Tamil literature --- Indic literature --- Sri Lankan literature --- Ecology, Social --- Environment, Human --- Human ecology (Social sciences) --- Human environment --- Social sciences --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- Civilization.

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Ayya's Accounts explores the life of an ordinary man-orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather-during a century of tremendous hope and upheaval. Born in colonial India into a despised caste of former tree climbers, Ayya lost his mother as a child and came of age in a small town in lowland Burma. Forced to flee at the outbreak of World War II, he made a treacherous 1,700-mile journey by foot, boat, bullock cart, and rail back to southern India. Becoming a successful fruit merchant, Ayya educated and eventually settled many of his descendants in the United States. Luck, nerve, subterfuge,

Merchants --- Nadars --- Tamil (Indic people) --- Shanars --- Caste --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Businesspeople --- Social conditions --- Mariappan, M. P., --- India --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- インド --- هند --- Индия

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Folk literature [Tamil] --- Littérature populaire tamoule --- Volksliteratuur [Tamil] --- Tales --- Tamil (Indic people) --- Folk literature, Tamil. --- Oral tradition --- Folk literature, Tamil --- -Tales --- -Tamil (Indic people) --- #VCV monografie 2003 --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Tamil folk literature --- Tamil literature --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- Tales - India - Tamil Nadu. --- Tamil (Indic people) - Folklore. --- Oral tradition - India - Tamil Nadu.