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Sri Lanka in Crisis Indias Options
About the book The author in a refreshing original way dissects the Sri Lanka crisis into three parts. The first is a clear description of the problem which rejects the conventional formulation of the problem as ethnic, religious, or linguistic. The author suggests on the basis of extensive research that Tamils and Sinhalas are different only in their historical interaction with British colonialists. Otherwise, in ethnicity, language and religion they are of the same family. Due to the British early familiarity with Tamils in India, the Sri Lanka Tamils found easy access to the British colonialists, while the landed gentry and farming community of Sinhala did not
