Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood
Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood
by Sankaran Krishna
University of Minnesota Press, 1999 Paper: 978-0-8166-3330-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-3329-6 Library of Congress Classification DS489.84.K77 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 954.93032
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
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
6.
Narratives in Contention: Interpreting the Agreement of July 1987
7.
Postcolonial Aporias: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence
8.
Decolonizing the Future in South Asia
Appendix 1: List of Interviewees
Appendix 2: Text of the Indo–Sri Lanka Agreement of July 29, 1987