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dc.title | Buddhist Civilisational Populism in Sri Lanka: Colonial Identity Formation, Post-War Othering, and Present Crises | |
dc.contributor.author | Gamage, Rajni | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-11T05:06:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-04-11T05:06:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-02-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Gamage, Rajni (2023-02-20). Buddhist Civilisational Populism in Sri Lanka: Colonial Identity Formation, Post-War Othering, and Present Crises. Religions 14 (2) : 278-278. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020278 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2077-1444 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/238748 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, I discuss the evolution of Buddhist civilisational populism in modern Sri Lankan politics and civil society. I do this by historicising early forms of Buddhist civilisational populism in the country, during its occupation by the British Empire (1815–1945). As I discuss in this paper, some of the key concepts of “civilisationism” central to leading social and political movements in British Ceylon were a result of the disruptions caused by centuries of European colonial rule. Consequently, issues of identity and belonging have carried on to the post-independence context. In this paper, I discuss what these dynamics could possibly mean for the future of Sri Lankan politics and society, in the wake of the nation’s debilitating economic crisis last year. | |
dc.publisher | MDPI AG | |
dc.source | Elements | |
dc.subject | civilisational populism | |
dc.subject | Sri Lanka | |
dc.subject | Buddhist nationalism | |
dc.subject | anti-colonialism | |
dc.subject | ethnic conflict | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-04-11T04:35:15Z | |
dc.contributor.department | INSTITUTE OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES | |
dc.description.doi | 10.3390/rel14020278 | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | Religions | |
dc.description.volume | 14 | |
dc.description.issue | 2 | |
dc.description.page | 278-278 | |
dc.published.state | Unpublished | |
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