Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood Volume 15

by Sankaran Krishna

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816633304
• ISBN13: 9780816633302
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"