Sri Lanka: Sinhala Nationalism and the Elusive Southern Consensus (Asia Report N°141)

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ICG's structural analysis of Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism as a political-economic system, not a cultural curiosity. Documents the role of the JHU (Jathika Hela Urumaya — Buddhist-monk parliamentary party), the BBS antecedents, and the systematic veto of devolution settlements by the Sangha-political-party complex. Pairs with DeVotta's 'ethnic outbidding' framework — anchors the analytic claim that the religion-state machine is not a fringe phenomenon but the central structural obstacle to constitutional settlement.

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