In My Mother's House: Civil War in Sri Lanka

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index Abraham, Niolas and Maria Torok, 98–99 Abrams, Philip, 44–45 Agamben, Giorgio, 213–15, 271n31; State of Exception, 213–14 Alberoni, Francesco, 184, 190–92, 201, 225; “nascent state,” 189–92, 225 Anuradhapura, 114–15 Appiah, Anthony, 2 Arendt, Hannah, 213, 224 Aretxaga, Begoña, 82 Bahloul, Joelle, 146–47 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 178–79 betrayal, 26, 32, 72, 122, 192, 208, 224 biographies, 5, 79, 86, 87, 143–44, 193, 199, 200, 202, 204–6, 208–10, 218, 225, 239, 247–49 Bose, Sumantra, 186 Butler, Judith, 11–12, 141–42, 259n4. See also subjection caste, 43, 53, 94, 195 Colebrooke-Cameron reforms, 114–16 Colombo: future of, 253–56; history of, 230–42; and migration, 16, 79, 89, 234, 246–47, 253–54; and minorities, 85, 229, 23; Muslims in, 234–35; as Tamilspeaking city, 79, 228–29, 231, 234–36, 243–44, 251; violence in, 230, 240, 244–46, 250 colonial rule, and racial geographies, 114–15 Daniel, Valentine, 18–19, 151–52, 260n18 Das, Veena, 104, 132 de Certau, Michel, 242–43 diaspora, 3; “shadow diaspora,” 17, 247–49 displacement, 5, 16–17, 63–64, 78, 144, 147–48; and belonging, 170–71; and caste, 53; and gender, 159–61. See also diaspora; IDPs dowry, 33, 90, 94–95, 157, 196–97, 269n12; expropriation of, 138–41; and Northern Muslims, 162–65 education, 57–58; for refugees, 158–59 EPRLF (Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front), 24, 83, 85–87, 125, 185, 187–88, 192–93, 195–96, 201, 203, 208; female cadres, 217–21 EROS (Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students), 185, 188, 193, 201, 203–5, 268n2 ethnicity: conflict, 20–21; ethnic cleansing, 127–31; relations, 109–10 Eviction, the, 28, 63–64, 106, 108–9, 127–44, 156–57; and generations, 172–75; as past, 169–72 Exodus, the, 28, 63, 65–73, 247 family, 51, 62; and the dead, 97–98, 100; familial relationships, 32–33, 54–55, 78, 90–96, 249; and political life, 218–21. See also generations Federal Party, 23, 123, 195 Fortes, Meyer, 92 Gardner, Katy, 89 generations, 32, 34, 42–45, 54–56, 98–99, 148 group formation, 190–92, 224–25. See also Alberoni, Francesco home, 89, 151–55, 165, 174–75, 180; against homeland, 5, 18–19, 152; and belonging 20, 152; future, 20, 78, 89, 104–5, 164, 167, 253; and houses, 100–101. See also homeland ; homeliness; sontam; Ur 290 Index homeland. See Tamil Eelam homeliness, 19, 89 IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), 3, 16–17, 128, 146–47, 149–50, 167, 176, 266n25. See also refugees individuality: and collectivity, 39, 42, 222–23; and South Asia, 34–35; and war, 36–37, 76; western idea of, 35 IPKF (Indian Peace Keeping Forces), 24, 46, 87, 205–8. See also RAW Jaffna, 41–42; as home, 84, 89, 253; as homeland, 15; and migration, 15, 63; and war, 45 JVP (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna-National Liberation Front), 22–23, 103, 185, 188–89 Karuna, 28, 30 kinship, 31, 92, 263n6; and ambivalence, 92–93; “Dravidian kinship,” 31, 261n23; and political conflict, 93. See also family; sontam Koselleck, Rheinhart, 43, 168–69; “horizon of expectation,” 168; “space of experience,” 168; “temporal structure of experience,” 88, 168 Krishna, Sankaran, 186 Leach, Edmund, 93, 263n8 loss, 146–47, 180, 222–23 LTTE (Tamil Tigers), 2–3, 24–27, 46, 183–88, 201; against other militant movements, 85–86, 202; cadres, 25–26, 136–37, 213, 215; and caste, 195–96; control, 42–43, 51, 107, 254; defeat of, 30, 226–27, 254–55; and Eelam War II, 25, 208; and everyday life, 27; as exception, 213–15; female cadres , 29, 216; and ideology of death, 61, 215; intelligence, 25; IPKF against, 46, 205–6; and Muslims, 125–31, 137; as part of Tamil culture, 28, 212; and popular culture, 48; as a quasi state, 27, 39–40, 47, 63, 76, 187, 211; and recruitment, 26, 43, 47, 56–57, 59–61, 200; and sovereignty, 214; and Sri Lankan state, 25; support of, 39; and Tamil civilians, 4, 26,71,153; and Tamil family, 29, 62, 200; and Tamilization, 47, 217; terror, 38 Lubkemann, Stephen, 5, 7–11 Mannheim, Karl, 44–45 migration, 15–18; as form of social mobility, 248–49, 255; overseas, 16–17, 74, 210, 248. See also diaspora; displacement; IDPs militancy, 5–6, 23–24, 59, 82–83, 184–85, 210; ethnography of, 186; and gender, 196–97, 203; internecine warfare, 86, 203; and kinship...