Tamil Nationalist Act in the Theatre of Good Governance

MeeNilankco Theiventhran


 

Polity Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.10-13 (Download PDF)

MeeNilankco Theiventhran’s essay on Tamil nationalist politics makes clear that crises of legitimacy and credibility after the January 8th election is not a factor that is limited to politics in the South. As Theiventhran argues, the victory of the Yahapalana coalition has unexpectedly exacerbated the gap between the priorities of the major Tamil political parties and the needs of the Tamil people in the North.

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