{"title":"An Army in Yellow Robes: Saṅgha Political Resistance 1815–2010","authors":"S. Rāghavan","doi":"10.1558/equinox.24503","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":252743,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka's Civil War: Ethnoreligious Nationalism of the Sinhala Saṅgha and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka, 1995-2010","volume":"323 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka's Civil War: Ethnoreligious Nationalism of the Sinhala Saṅgha and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka, 1995-2010","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.24503","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.