TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krishna,Sankaran
TI  - Postcolonial insecurities : India, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood
T2  - Borderlines
SN  - 0816633304 (pbk.)
U1  - 323.3 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Tamil (Indic people)
N1  - Included 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
N2  - 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
ER  -