Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia’s Plantations 9780824847876
In 2006 dejected members of the Bukit Jalil Estate community faced eviction from their homes in Kuala Lumpur where they
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. An Emergent Betrayal: Tamils and the Development of Selangor’s Plantations
3. Plantation Fragments
4. Tapping Memories: Plantations Are Not a Workplace
5. Interruptions, Insurrections, Strategies
6. The Locus of God’s Power: The Faith of Spirit and Its Incomprehensible Shattering
7. Ethnic Riots and Other Myths
8. Flats
9. The Law’s Betrayal
10. Hindraf and the Haunting of Justice
Notes
Bibliography
Index
