Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Map of Sri Lanka; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; PART I The British colonial period; 1 The spatial component of the Sri Lankan Buddhist imaginary 1590s to 1815; 2 The evangelical Protestant missionary spatial imaginary; 3 The spatial impact of missionary schools; 4 The spatial impact of church building; 5 British and Buddhist imaginaries: the sacred cities, the Aryan debate and the Tamil Other; 6 Ancient cities and narratives of power; PART II The post-colonial period
7 Sinhala Buddhist imaginaries post-1948 and during the ethnic war8 Ethnic conflict, internal war and the spatial 1912-2009; 9 Spatial change and competition after the ending of armed conflict; Concluding thoughts; Selective glossary; Selective timeline; Index
