TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avtar Singh Bhasin 
TI  - India in Sri Lanka : Between lion and the tigers
SN  - 9788170492108
U1  - 327.5405493 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - Manas
KW  - Diplomatic relations	
KW  - Ethnic relations	
KW  - Sri Lanka	
N2  - Sri Lanka has been in turmoil for most part of her existence as an independent nation. Tamils, whether of Indian origin or ethnic, had been at the centre of this turmoil. While the question of citizenship for the Tamils of Indian origin was resolved, the problem of ethnic Tamils continues to be intractable. India has between the contradictory pulls of sovereignty of Sri Lanka and demand for Eelam of the Tamils. India's involvement in brokering an honourable solution had an adverse impact on the ethnic problem in that it raised Tamil expectations and proportionately their intransigence. In a momentous development of events India's induction of her armed forces led to her entering into an armed conflict with the very people, whom she sought to protect. In the end, Indian intervention proved self-defeating and she came out of the Island battered and frustrated. It also brought home to India succinctly the limitations of interventionist policies in today's world
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