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

Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
PART I: Narratives in Contention: Indian, Sinhalese, and Tamil Nationalisms......Page 40
1. Mimetic Histories: Foreign Policy and the Narration of India......Page 42
2. Producing Sri Lanka from Ceylon: J. R. Jayewardene and Sinhala Identity......Page 70
3. Essentially Tamil: The Divergent Narratives of Eelam and Dravidinadu......Page 98
PART II: Delusions of Grandeur: India, Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka......Page 140
4. Modulating Bangladesh: India and Sri Lanka, 1980–84......Page 142
5. Hegemony as Spectacle: The Theater of Postcolonial Politics......Page 168
6. Narratives in Contention: Interpreting the Agreement of July 1987......Page 206
7. Postcolonial Aporias: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence......Page 246
8. Decolonizing the Future in South Asia......Page 268
Appendix 1: List of Interviewees......Page 286
Appendix 2: Text of the Indo–Sri Lanka Agreement of July 29, 1987......Page 288
Notes......Page 296
Bibliography......Page 328
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