LEADER 03174nam 2200517Ia 450 001 9910824403903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-5285-6 024 3 $z9780816633296 035 $a(CKB)3710000001409226 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310468 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310468 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10151295 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL522640 035 $a(OCoLC)227038310 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001409226 100 $a19990607d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPostcolonial insecurities $eIndia, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood /$fSankaran Krishna 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (xxxviii, 316 pages) 225 1 $aBorderlines ;$vv. 15 311 $a0-8166-3329-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-307) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: Narratives in Contention: Indian, Sinhalese, and Tamil Nationalisms -- 1. Mimetic Histories: Foreign Policy and the Narration of India -- 2. Producing Sri Lanka from Ceylon: J. R. Jayewardene and Sinhala Identity -- 3. Essentially Tamil: The Divergent Narratives of Eelam and Dravidinadu -- PART II: Delusions of Grandeur: India, Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka -- 4. Modulating Bangladesh: India and Sri Lanka, 1980-84 -- 5. Hegemony as Spectacle: The Theater of Postcolonial Politics -- 6. Narratives in Contention: Interpreting the Agreement of July 1987 -- 7. Postcolonial Aporias: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence -- 8. Decolonizing the Future in South Asia -- Appendix 1: List of Interviewees -- Appendix 2: Text of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of July 29, 1987 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. 330 $aThis ambitious work explores the vexed connections among nation building, ethnic identity, and regional conflict by focusing on a specific event: Indian political and military intervention in the ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese and Tamils in Sri Lanka. Postcolonial Insecurities counters the perception of "ethnicity" as an inferior and subversive principle compared with the progressive ideal of the "nation." Krishna, in fact, shows ethnicity to be indispensable to the production and reproduction of the nation itself. 410 0$aBorderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;$vv. 15. 606 $aTamil (Indic people)$zSri Lanka$xPolitics and government 607 $aSri Lanka$xPolitics and government$y1978- 607 $aIndia$xForeign relations$zSri Lanka 607 $aSri Lanka$xForeign relations$zIndia 615 0$aTamil (Indic people)$xPolitics and government. 676 $a954.9303/2 700 $aKrishna$b Sankaran$01625667 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824403903321 996 $aPostcolonial insecurities$94122405 997 $aUNINA