SANKARAN KRISHNA
Series: Borderlines
Volume: 15
Copyright Date: 1999
Edition: NED - New edition
Published
by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 356
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttt8vt
Book Description:
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. 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.
eISBN: 978-0-8166-5285-3
Subjects: History