• Dr. Shyni Danial

This paper engages with the issues of citizenship, statelessness and repatriation of estate Tamils of Sri Lanka to India in the period between 1930 and 1980. The study aims to reveal the way in which how Indian immigrant community enjoyed enfranchisement rights in the Colonial Ceylon and the way their political privileges were questioned in the later periods. The nation state formation in South Asia brought new meanings to individual identities and the concept of ‘British subjects’ which ensured various rights to the Tamil immigrants in the Colonial Ceylon became insignificant. The paper goes on to describe the way in which how the estate Tamils had undergone a condition of political uncertainty which finally led to their repatriation to their ancestral regions in South India and the discussions and debates which occurred around their repatriation to India

Plantation Labour, ethnicity, Citizenship, statelessness, repatriation and rehabilitation

"From ‘British Subjects’ to ‘Stateless Persons’: the Repatriation of Estate Tamils of Sri Lanka to India C.1920-80", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.330-344, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806741.pdf

"From ‘British Subjects’ to ‘Stateless Persons’: the Repatriation of Estate Tamils of Sri Lanka to India C.1920-80", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp330-344, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806741.pdf