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Book: Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka's Civil War

Chapter: An Army in Yellow Robes: Saṅgha Political Resistance 1815–2010

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.24503

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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.

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