TY - BOOK AU - Krishna,Sankaran TI - Postcolonial insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood T2 - Oxford India Paperbacks SN - 978-0816633302 AV - DS489.84 .K77 1999 U1 - 954.9303 K98p 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Tamil (Indic people) KW - Sri Lanka KW - Politics and government KW - 1978- KW - India KW - Foreign relations N1 - 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; DELL ER -