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• Readings (7)
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Books (1)

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History (2017) – Zoltán Biedermann and Alan Strathern

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Readings (7)

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• Buddhicizing or Ethnicizing the State: Do the Sinhala Sangha Fear Muslims in Sri Lanka? (2013) – Suren Rāghavan
  ⭐ Recommended

  … independence was perceived as an opportunity for a particular ethnic group

  17 pages

  Online pdf
• Ven. Walpola Rahula and the Politicisation of the Sinhala Sangha (2011) – Suren Rāghavan

  He legitimised the secularisation of the modern Sangha and its interpretation of Buddhism as exclusively Sinhala

  20 pages

  Online pdf
• Dissimulated Landscapes: Postcolonial Method and the Politics of Space in Southern Sri Lanka (2013) – Tariq Jazeel

  … as valuable as the familiar theoretical and conceptual languages of Euro-American landscape geography are, they also risk concealing a range of different aesthetics, social formations, and experiences that unfold in the non-Euro-American landscape. They risk dissimulating the politics of places as they are produced and lived contextually.

  19 pages

  pdf pdf

See also:

The Mothers of the Righteous Society: Lay Buddhist Women as Agents of the Sinhala Nationalist Imaginary (2020) – Nalika Gajaweera

Beautifully moral: cosmopolitan issues in medieval Pāli literary theory (2017) – Alastair Gornall and Justin Henry

Literary Activity in Pali (1969) – N. A. Jayawickrama

Religious Beliefs, Possession States, and Spirits: Three Case Studies from Sri Lanka (2012) – Raveen Hanwella, Varuni de Silva, Alam Yoosuf, Sanjeewani Karunaratne, and Pushpa de Silva

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Audio/Video (1)

Anti-Muslim Movements in Sri Lanka and Myanmar: Connections and Commonalities (2014) – Matthew J Walton

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Related Topics (2)

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• South Asia

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• Sri Lankan Buddhism