The defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009 by the Sri Lankan
State and the subsequent unfolding of the Rajapaksas' dynastic project has precipitated an
extraordinary resurgence in Sinhalese (Buddhist) nationalism both within civil society and as
an official State narrative in Sri Lanka. 1 The Sri Lankan cum Sinhalese Buddhist State
(hereafter 'Sinhalese State') that President Rajapaksa is fashioning draws on the symbolic
capital proffered by the fetishised cultural forms of Sinhalese nationalism and has been …

Republican Constitutionalism and Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism in Sri Lanka: Towards
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