Postcolonial insecurities
Subtitle: India, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood
By: Sankaran Krishna.
Series: Borderlines ;; v. 15; Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;; v. 15.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Tamil (Indic people) -- Sri Lanka -- Politics and government; Sri Lanka -- Politics and government -- 1978-; India -- Foreign relations -- Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka -- Foreign relations -- India
Description: This 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-307) and index.