What is Tamil nationalism?
[[File:Tamil distribution.png|thumb|Where [[Tamil language|Tamil]] speakers live in South India and Sri Lanka (1961).]] '''Tamil nationalists''' in both Sri Lanka and the Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]] attempted to create an independent state ([[Tamil Eelam]]) amid the increasing political and physical violence against ordinary Tamils by the Sri Lankan government since the pogroms of 1983, known as Black July. After the island's independence from Britain, the [[Sri Lanka]]n government passed the Citizenship Act of 1948, which made more than a million Tamils of Indian origin stateless. {{asia-stub}} [[Category:Nationalism]] [[Category:Politics of Sri Lanka]] [[Category:Separatist movements of India]] [[Category:Tamils]]