ABOUT JAFFNA

Jaffna is located in the nothern part of the Sri lanka.This is the Home city of Sri Lankan Tamil.Most of the Jaffna Tamils are well educated .They have their traditional culture,Decency.This is an ancient port city.I am also from Jaffna.My village call "Ilavalai"which is located 5 km north of Jaffna Town.This city is fillup with traditional Hindu kovils, catholicChurches.The local citizens are Hindu ,Catholics & Muslims and Christians. The Jaffna Peninsula and the rest of Sri Lanka's vast Northern Province comprise the country's driest region.Jaffna, the center of Sri Lanka's Tamil culture, was the capital of an independent medieval kingdom and later a key colonial outpost for the Portuguese and Dutch.About a million people today make their homes on the Jaffna Peninsula. Some 999 square miles (2,587 square kilometers) in size, the peninsula is saved from being an island only by a halfmile-wide strip of sand at its far southeastern end.Its flat, dry land is interspersed with shallow lagoons,and a number of interesting offshore islands extend the geographical pattern. The yal is today the symbol of Jaffna,which sometimes is also called "Yalpanam," "city of the lyre."Just as with the eastern coast, so has much of northern Sri Lankafallen to disruption and destruction due to fighting betweenthe Sri Lankan armed forces and the Tamil Militants(Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam) led By Mr.V. Prabaharan.Jaffna, the strong hold of the militant groups has taken a heavy toll. Access to the north is heavily restricted .But,when better times comes, Jaffna and the north will offer the discerning traveler a glimpse into a land of stark beauty, that is rich in culture and history.
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The Struggle for Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka

>> Friday, September 26, 2008

Regionalism has commonly been expected to dissolve as a consequence of the administrative regional penetration of the centralized modern state and the homogenizing forces associated with modernization. This mode of reasoning has reappeared recently among authors who see globalization as a universal force that will eradicate regional economic inequalities, local identities and regional political mobilization. Contrary to these expectations, regional autonomy movements continue to play a central political role within many states. Consequently, it remains an important analytical challenge to understand the construction and politicization of regional interests.Against this background, the article presents a critical interpretation and contextual analysis of Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka. It is argued that studies of nationalist movements should seek inspiration in the contemporary dialog between three main perspectives on social movements (theories of new social movements, resource mobilization theories, and theories of collective identity) and a corresponding three-dimensional understanding of place (location, locale, and sense of place). The paper shows how nationalist mobilization cannot be reduced to essentialist notions of primordial nations, territorial nation-states, or internal colonialism, but instead should be understood as the outcome of cultural and political practices by a multitude of actors, operating in time- and place-specific contexts

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