Postcolonial insecurities : India, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood (Record no. 12192)
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| fixed length control field | 01614cam a2200217 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0816633304 (pbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780816633302 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0816633290 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780816633296 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 323.3 |
| Item number | KRI |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Krishna, Sankaran. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Postcolonial insecurities : India, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Minneapolis, MN : |
| Name of publisher | University of Minnesota Press, |
| Year of publication | c1999. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxxviii, 316 p. ; |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Borderlines ; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Included Index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | pt. I. Narratives in Contention: Indian, Sinhalese, and Tamil Nationalisms --<br/>1. Mimetic Histories: Foreign Policy and the Narration of India --<br/>2. Producing Sri Lanka from Ceylon: J.R. Jayewardene and Sinhala Identity --<br/>3. Essentially Tamil: The Divergent Narratives of Eelam and Dravidinadu --<br/>pt. II. Delusions of Grandeur: India, Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka --<br/>4. Modulating Bangladesh: India and Sri Lanka, 1980-84 --<br/>5. Hegemony as Spectacle: The Theater of Postcolonial Politics --<br/>6. Narratives in Contention: Interpreting the Agreement of July 1987 --<br/>7. Postcolonial Aporias: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence --<br/>8. Decolonizing the Future in South Asia --<br/>App. 1. List of Interviewees --<br/>App. 2. Text of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of July 29, 1987. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Tamil (Indic people) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Reference Books |
| Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Reference | Main Library | Main Library | Reference | 06/05/2008 | Donation | 5467.50 | 323.3 KRI | 011050 | Reference Books |