Author: G. C. Mendis
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120602090
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Author: Garrett C. Mendis
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Languages : en
Pages : 103

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ISBN: 9788121233408
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Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Author: Garrett Champness Mendis
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Author: Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190225793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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On the ethnic relations and politics in post 1978 Sri Lanka.

Author: Catherine Ellis
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508104409
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Much of East Asia and Southeast Asia were unaffected by colonialism until the 19th century, when European nations, the United States, and Japan spread their influence and control throughout the continent of Asia. This resource traces the impact of foreign rule on the region, gaining insight into the many wars and policies that affected the local people, economy, and society. Though most of the modern-day countries of East and Southeast Asia gained independence in the wake of World War II, when Japan was defeated and the Allied powers began to lose control of their colonies, the impact of colonialism lingers on.

Author: Sangaralingam Ramesh
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031670043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113503835X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. In this book de Silva Wijeyeratne argues forcefully that ‘Sinhalese Buddhism’ in the period prior to its engagement with the British colonial State signified a relatively unbounded (although at times boundary forming) set of practices that facilitated both the inclusion and exclusion of non-‘Buddhist’ concepts and people within a particular cosmological frame. Juxtaposing the premodern against the backdrop of colonial modernity, de Silva Wijeyeratne tells us that in contrast modern 'Sinhalese Buddhism/nationalism' is a much more reified and bounded concept, one imagined through a 19th century epistemology whose purpose was not so much inclusion, but a much more radical exclusion of non-‘Buddhist’ ideas and people. In this insightful analysis modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, then, emerges through the conjunction of discourse, power and knowledge at a distinct moment in the trajectory of the colonial State. An intrinsic feature of this modernist moment is that premodern categories (such as the cosmic order) were subject to a bureaucratic re-valuation that generated profound consequences for State-society relations and the wider constitutional/legal imaginary. This book goes onto explore how key constitutional and nation-building moments were framed within the cultural milieu of modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism – a nationalism that reveals the power of a re-valued Buddhist cosmic order to still inform the present. Given the intensification of the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist project following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009, this book is of interest to scholars of nationalism, South Asian studies, the anthropology of ritual, and comparative legal history.

Author: H. A. I. Goonetileke
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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