Mahaweli development and the religion-state dimension of state-aided colonisation (ICG · Oakland · PEARL)

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Documents how state-aided colonisation under the Mahaweli scheme (1970s onwards) coupled land grants to Sinhala settlers with co-located vihara construction and Buddha Sasana ministry land allocation — the agricultural-resettlement and religious-architectural layers of the policy moved together. Establishes that the religion-state architecture is not just a constitutional ornament but an operational instrument of demographic engineering. Pair with cpa-land-restitution and pearl-erased-2024.

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