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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.
Bhardwaj et al. (1996) studied this question.