| ID | 168814 |
| Title Proper | Mapping Lanka’s Moral Boundaries |
| Other Title Information | Representations of Socio-Political Difference in the Ravana Rajavaliya |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Young, Jonathan ; Friedrich, Philip |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article analyses the ways in which a little-known Sinhala text called the Ravana Rajavaliya articulates a moral topography of late medieval Sri Lanka. Rather than expressing a kind of all-consuming xenophobia in response to social and cultural difference, the text indexes a set of local political responses to the surge in social mobility occasioned by changing patterns of trans-regional circulation in Sri Lanka’s southwest. We argue that ‘others’ are represented in terms of proximity to a generalised moral order, one which highlights desirable forms of selfhood as instruments for assimilation within an emerging state society. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 42, No.4; Aug 2019: p.768-780 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2019-08 42, 4 |
| Key Words | Caste ; Sri Lanka ; Buddhism ; Kingship ; Ramayana ; Ravana |