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Postcolonial insecurities : India, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood / Sankaran Krishna.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 15.Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Oxford India Paperbacks 2002Description: xxxviii, 316 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 978-0816633302
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.9303 K98p 2002
LOC classification:
  • DS489.84 .K77 1999
Contents:
Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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. App. 1. List of Interviewees -- App. 2. Text of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of July 29, 1987.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-307) and index.

Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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. App. 1. List of Interviewees -- App. 2. Text of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of July 29, 1987.

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