Book: Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka's Civil War
Chapter: An Army in Yellow Robes: Saṅgha Political Resistance 1815–2010
Blurb:
This chapter surveys the key moments in Saṅgha mobilization, and concludes that
with each wave of resistance, the Saṅgha were able to claim societal, cultural and political space to promote their agenda, and this agenda acquired sharper contours as their ethnoreligious nationalist project took shape.