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| 100 | 1 | _aKrishna, Sankaran. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aPostcolonial insecurities : India, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood |
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_aMinneapolis, MN : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _cc1999. |
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| 300 | _axxxviii, 316 p. ; | ||
| 490 | 1 | _aBorderlines ; | |
| 500 | _aIncluded Index. | ||
| 505 | _apt. 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. | ||
| 520 | _aThis 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 | _aTamil (Indic people) | |
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