Postcolonial insecurities : (Record no. 24687)

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LC control number 99016845
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International Standard Book Number 0816633290
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International Standard Book Number 0816633304 (pbk.)
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Original cataloging agency Indian Institute for Human Settlements-Bangalore
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Classification number DS489.84
Item number .K77 1999
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Classification number 954.93032 KRI
Edition number 23
Item number 023408
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Krishna, Sankaran,
Dates associated with a name author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Postcolonial insecurities :
Remainder of title India, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood /
Statement of responsibility, etc Sankaran Krishna.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Minneapolis, MN :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer University of Minnesota Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice c1999.
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Extent xxxviii, 316 p. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
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Series statement Borderlines ;
Volume number/sequential designation v. 15
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Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-307) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART 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; PART 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.
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Summary, etc Annotation $bThis 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 interworking of nation-building, ethnicity, and "foreign" policy. Krishna argues that the modernist effort to construct nation-states on the basis of singular notions of sovereignty and identity has reached a violent dead end in the postcolonial world of South Asia. Showing how the nationalist agenda that seeks to align territory with identity has unleashed a spiral of regional, statist, and insurgent violence, he makes an eloquent case for reimagining South Asia along post-national lines -- as a "confederal" space. Postcolonial 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
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Tamil (Indic people)
Geographic subdivision Sri Lanka
General subdivision Politics and government.
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Geographic name Sri Lanka
General subdivision Politics and government
Chronological subdivision 1978-
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Geographic name India
General subdivision Foreign relations
Geographic subdivision Sri Lanka.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Sri Lanka
General subdivision Foreign relations
Geographic subdivision India.
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Main entry heading Krishna, Sankaran.
Title Postcolonial insecurities.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1999
Record control number (DLC) 99016845
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 26/06/2025 ES/59826/17-6-2025 1737.00   954.93032 KRI 023408 023408 26/06/2025 26/06/2025 Book Course Reserve