LEADER 05239oam 2200733I 450 001 9910790582203321 005 20230803220050.0 010 $a1-138-57554-2 010 $a1-138-67964-X 010 $a1-135-03834-1 010 $a0-203-77163-X 010 $a1-135-03835-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203771631 035 $a(CKB)2550000001110606 035 $a(EBL)1344615 035 $a(OCoLC)855970194 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000954575 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12320976 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000954575 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10942770 035 $a(PQKB)10468005 035 $a(OCoLC)859159569 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1344615 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1344615 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10747284 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL510537 035 $a(OCoLC)900088455 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB132811 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001110606 100 $a20180706d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNation, constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka /$fRoshan de Silva Wijeyeratne 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (583 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge contemporary South Asia series ;$v72 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-46266-5 311 $a1-299-79286-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe mythic life of Sinhalese BuddhismOntology, evil and the state; 3. Textual practices, Sinhalese Buddhist consciousness and dissonance; Introduction; Dissonance and continuity in Sinhalese Buddhist consciousness; The aesthetic, oral and cultural consolidation of Sinhalese Buddhist consciousness; The inside and outside of Sinhalese Buddhist consciousness; 4. Galactic polities, cosmography and Buddhist sovereignty; Introduction; A genealogy of the galactic polity; Landscape, cosmography and the city of the gods; Galactic devolution, virtual sovereignty and the rituals of state 327 $aKingship and contested cosmic orders5. The transformation of Sinhalese Buddhist consciousness in its colonial and postcolonial relation; Introduction; The European encounter with Ceylon; The British encounter with the Asokan Persona; Colonial modernity, bureaucracy and the Buddhist imaginary; Orientalism and race; Constitutional reformism and nationalism; 6. Independence, land, citizenship and the cosmic order; Introduction; Onwards to independence; Enter modernist Buddhism; Senanayake, the Buddhist imaginary, land and the Indian Tamils 327 $a7. Sinhalese revolutionaries, linguistic nationalism and Buddhism reimaginedIntroduction; Sinhalese nationalist capture; Tamil nationalist response; 8. Cosmology, constitutionalism and the Tamil other; Introduction; Republicanism, Tamil separatism and Sinhalese insurrection; UNP rule, Buddhist righteousness and authoritarianism; 9. Centralization, decentralization and the cosmology of Buddhism; Introduction; The 1987 Indo-Sri Lankan Accord and the beginning of the end; Stumbling towards federalism; Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist resurgence; Towards the apothiosis of 1956 327 $a10. Conclusion: rethinking community in Sri LankaNotes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"Focusing on Sri Lanka, this book offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about nationalism in South Asia. It looks at the 'capture' of Buddhism by militant Sinhalese nationalism in the colonial and postcolonial periods, and the framing of subsequent key constitutional legal moments. The book combines the dynamics of constitutionalism with the orbit of historical, political and anthropological scholarship on the cosmology of Sinhalese Buddhism and its relation to Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism. It explores four cases of legal-constitutional moments and offers a unique contribution to the politics and history of devolution in Sri Lanka. The book goes on to examine the way in which Buddhism, and particularly the Asokan state model, may in fact provide the intellectual resources for decentralized government beyond Sri Lanka in other parts of the Theravada Buddhist world, such as Thailand and Burma. Presenting a timely analysis given the intensification of Sri Lanka's civil war since the election in 2005 of President Mahinda Rajapakse on an overtly ultra nationalist Sinhalese Buddhist platform, this book is of interest to scholars of South Asian Studies, anthropology, sociology, ethnicity and political science"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge Contemporary South Asia Series 606 $aNationalism$zSri Lanka 606 $aNationalism$zSri Lanka$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism 607 $aSri Lanka$xPolitics and government 615 0$aNationalism 615 0$aNationalism$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism. 676 $a320.54095493 686 $aPOL009000$aPOL022000$2bisacsh 700 $aDe Silva Wijeyeratne$b Roshan.$01537332 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790582203321 996 $aNation, constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka$93786550 997 $aUNINA