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

By:

Krishna, Sankaran

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 15.Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Oxford India Paperbacks 2002Description: xxxviii, 316 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

978-0816633302

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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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Books	Premier University DELL Library	954.9303 K98p 2002	1	Available	14118
Books	Premier University DELL Library	954.9303 K98p 2002	3	Available	14119
Books	Premier University Central Library	954.9303 K98p 2002	2	Available	9224

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-307) and index.

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