Format:
Online-Ressource (583 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780415462662
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Content:
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 Wij
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sri Lankan nationalism and the presence of the past: towards a hermeneutic perspective; Chapter outline; 1. The Mahāvamsa as history and the pre-history of state formation; Introduction; The Pāli chronicles as history; Pre-European state formation; 2. The cosmology of Buddhism, the Pāli chronicles and the ontology of evil; Introduction; The ontological ground of the cosmic order; The Asokan Persona, the cosmic order and the rituals of state; Sinhalese Buddhism and the cosmic state
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The 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
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Kingship 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
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7. 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
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10. Conclusion: rethinking community in Sri LankaNotes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781135038342
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415462662
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka
Language:
English
Keywords:
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