Learning Politics From Sivaram

Mark Whitaker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of South Carolina, Aiken. He received his PhD from Princeton University. He is the author of Learning Politics From Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka (Pluto, 2006), and has written widely on Sri Lanka.

• Note on Transliteration, Translation, Names and NeutralityThree Prologues1. Introduction: Why an Intellectual biography of Sivaram Dharmeratnam?2. Learning Politics from Sivaram3. The Family Elephant4. Ananthan and the Readers Circle5. From SR to Taraki - a 'serious unserious' journey6. From Taraki to TamilNet: Sivaram as journalist, military analyst and Internet pioneer7. States, Nations and Nationalism8. Return to BatticaloaBibliographyIndex

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