Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka: Counter-history as War after the Tamil Tigers

Published on: 2022-10-31
Page Count: 150 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: Social Science
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Language: en
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ISBN-13: 9781000779455
ISBN-10: 1000779459
... the lion symbolising the Sinhala race (Sunday Times, 2010). The Hela myth ... (2019: 782) notes, this alternative autochthonous narrative 'displaces the origins of the Sinhala people into the far distant past' than that of Vijaya, 'positing ...

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