Postcolonial Insecurities – India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood

Postcolonial InsecuritiesIndia, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood\nAuthor(s): Sankaran Krishna\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816633302, 978-0816633302\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of the connections between ethnicity and nation-building.\n\nThis 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.\n\nDrawing on interviews with leading players in the IndianSri Lankan debacle, Sankaran Krishna offers a persuasive analysis of this episode. The intervention serves as a springboard to a broader inquiry into the interworkings 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.