Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; A Note on Translation and Language ; List of abbreviations ; 1 Introduction: Religion, Law and the Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka
Religion and Law in a Constitutional Age The Costs of Constitutional Law ; The Case of Sri Lanka ; Pyrrhic Constitutionalism ; Constitutional Microhistory and the Expanded Archive of Sri Lankan Law ; Outline of Chapters ; Part I The Past Lives of the Buddhism Chapter
2 Managing Religion at the End of Empire Section I ; Constitution-Making in 1940s Ceylon ; Colonial Legacies of Managing Religion ; Senanayake, Jennings and the Origins of the Preventative Paradigm ; The Preventative Paradigm and Section 29(2) of the 1948 Constitution ; Section II
Protectionist and Promotional Objections to the 1948 Constitution Origins of the Protectionist Paradigm: The Young Turks and Religion as a Fundamental Right ; Legitimating the Protectionist Paradigm, Part I: Fundamental Rights as Human Rights
Legitimating the Protectionist Paradigm, Part II: Fundamental Rights in South Asia Section III ; The Origins of the Promotional Paradigm: Religious Rights as Buddhist Prerogatives ; Legitimating the Promotional Paradigm: Buddhist Privileges as Democratic Device
Summary
Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law
