Title: Unmaking the Nation: The Politics of Identity & History in Modern Sri Lanka
Publisher: SSA Sri Lanka
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0974883972
ISBN 13: 9780974883977
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: New

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This now classic work provides challenging new ways of thinking about nationalism, colonialism and modernity, in Sri Lanka. Situated at the conceptual intersection of history and identity, the essays in the volume denaturalizes the claims of the nation, taking it apart analytically, pointing to hidden relations of power and inequality that undergird it. "Stimulating... Excellent..." -- Journal of Asian Studies. "...will be of great value to all those concerned with... nationalism, violence and adversarial historiography."--- Arjun Appadurai "....forces us to think about Sri Lankan symbolic and social formations in an entirely novel fashion." --Gananath Obeyesekere

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Pradeep Jeganathan is a Senior Consultant Social Anthropologist at the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Colombo. He is co-edior with Partha Chatterjee of Subaltern Studies X1 (2001) and author of At the Water's Edge (2004) and Living with Death (2007).

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