Nation Constitutionalism And Buddhism In Sri Lanka
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Nation Constitutionalism And Buddhism In Sri Lanka
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Author : Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Nation Constitutionalism And Buddhism In Sri Lanka written by Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Political Science categories.
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.
Buddhism Politics And The Limits Of Law
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Author : Benjamin Schonthal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-17
Buddhism Politics And The Limits Of Law written by Benjamin Schonthal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with Law categories.
Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law.
Constitutions Religion And Politics In Asia
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Author : Dian A. H. Shah
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-26
Constitutions Religion And Politics In Asia written by Dian A. H. Shah and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-26 with History categories.
Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.
Ethnicity And Nation Building In Sri Lanka
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Author : Subhash Chandra Nayak
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 2001
Ethnicity And Nation Building In Sri Lanka written by Subhash Chandra Nayak and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Political Science categories.
An Indepth Study Of An Historical Perspective On `Ethnicity And Nation Building In Sri Lanka`. Has 5 Chapters Followed By Conclusions And A Bibliography. The Work Posits The `State` As A Central Explanatory Variable In Accounting For Identity Formulation And Nationality Formation Which Has Accounted For The Process Of Nation Building.
Nation Constitutionalism And Buddhism In Sri Lanka
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Author : Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Nation Constitutionalism And Buddhism In Sri Lanka written by Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Political Science categories.
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.
States Nations Sovereignty
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Author : Sumantra Bose
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Release Date : 1994-09-06
States Nations Sovereignty written by Sumantra Bose and has been published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-06 with History categories.
This volume not only gives a clear account of the development of the Tamil nationalist movement in Sri Lanka but uses the account to explore the relationship between state power and national consciousness. The comparative focus, incisive analysis and adroit blending of the theoretical and the practical illuminate the worldwide confrontation of state and nation, and movements for autonomy and self-determination. Bose provides a key to the study of modern nationalism, comparative politics and international relations around the world.
Comparative Constitutionalism In South Asia
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Author : Sunil Khilnani
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2016
Comparative Constitutionalism In South Asia written by Sunil Khilnani and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Law categories.
Despite their divergent recent histories and political experiences, there is a remarkable degree of constitutional and legal kinship among the South Asian countries. Yet for long legal communities in these countries were in the habit of looking to the West for statutory modelling and jurisprudential innovation. They are, however, now increasingly reacting to and engaging with constitutional law developments in the neighbouring countries of the region. This pioneering volume maps out the intellectual and historical contours of this little-studied field, yet one that is critical to South Asias future: the mutual borrowing, citing, and dialogue across the constitutional jurisdictions of South Asia. This nascent but significant development provides the basis, the volume argues, for a distinct comparative constitutionalism focused on the South Asian region. The essays collected here examine whether the experience so far of comparative law across South Asia offers insight into broader trends in constitutionalism, and also ask how the corpus of general comparative constitutional law might benefit from greater familiarity with the South Asian experience. The contributors are broad and diverse in their outlook and experience, and their contributions cover a wide range of contemporary constitutional developments in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The topics addressed include substantive issues such as: the interface of law and religion and models of secularism in specific South Asian jurisdictions; the challenges confronted by public interest lawyers in championing their causes across courts in South Asia; and the evolution of constitutionalism in smaller South Asian polities over time. Additionally, some chapters focus on methodological and related challenges to fostering deeper dialogue in the field of constitutional law across South Asian nations.
The Politics And Poetics Of Authenticity
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Author : Harshana Rambukwella
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-07-02
The Politics And Poetics Of Authenticity written by Harshana Rambukwella and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-02 with Literary Collections categories.
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the ‘real’ or the ‘authentic’ has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity. Through a series of fine-grained and historically grounded analyses of the writings of individual figures central to the making of Sinhala nationalist ideology the book demonstrates authenticity’s rich and varied presence in Sri Lankan public life and its key role in understanding postcolonial nationalism in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in South Asia and the world. It also explores how notions of authenticity shape certain strands of postcolonial criticism and offers a way of questioning the taken-for-granted nature of the nation as a unit of analysis but at the same time critically explore the deep imprint of nations and nationalisms on people's lives.
Unstable Constitutionalism
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Author : Mark Tushnet
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-17
Unstable Constitutionalism written by Mark Tushnet and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Law categories.
This book examines constitutional law and practice in five South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
Sri Lanka
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Author : Walter Nubin
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2002
Sri Lanka written by Walter Nubin and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This book provides an overview of the development of a small country, which on the one hand, is unique, and on the other hand, is also an interesting reflection and microcosm of the global economy. Sri Lanka's development is one of the contrasts, complicated by social conflicts and ethnic tensions. Social, political, economic and constitutional developments are considered. This is in accordance with the Sri Lankan tradition of seeing the world as a connected whole. The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon) is an island in the Indian Ocean approximately 18 miles off the south-eastern coast of India with a population of about 19 million. Density is highest in the south-west where Colombo, the country's main port and industrial centre, is located. Sri Lanka is ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. Sri Lanka follows a non-aligned foreign policy. It participates in multilateral diplomacy, particularly at the United Nations, where it seeks to promote sovereignty, independence, and development in the developing world.