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Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood
Sankaran Krishna
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Paperback. Series: Borderlines. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 465.
An exploration of the connections between ethnicity and nation-building.
This ambitious 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.
Drawing on interviews with leading players in the Indian–Sri Lankan debacle, Sankaran Krishna offers a persuasive analysis of this episode. The intervention serves as a springboard to a broader inquiry into the interworkings of nation building, ethnicity, and “foreign” policy. Krishna argues that the modernist effort to construct nation-states on the basis of singular notions of ... Read morePostcolonial Insecurities counters the perception of “ethnicity” as an inferior and subversive principle compared with the progressive ideal of the “nation.” Krishna, in fact, shows ethnicity to be indispensable to the production and reproduction of the nation itself. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Borderlines
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816633302
SKU
V9780816633302
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99-50
About Sankaran Krishna
Sankaran Krishna is associate professor of political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the director of the Center for South Asian Studies.
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