Reflections on Constitutional History, Theory and Practice
A collection of scholarly essays marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Sri Lankan Republic in 1972.
Edited by Asanga Welikala.
Download the complete Volume 1 here, and Volume 2 here. Individual chapters and contributions can be downloaded below.
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Frontispiece
Sketch – Sunela Jayewardene
List of Contributors
Foreword – Sagarica Delgoda
Preface – Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
Editor’s Introduction – Asanga Welikala
VOLUME 1
Part I – Constitutional History
- Reflections on the Making and Content of the 1972 Constitution: An Insider’s Perspective – Nihal Jayawickrama
- The 1972 Republican Constitution of Sri Lanka in the Postcolonial Constitutional Evolution of Sri Lanka – Radhika Coomaraswamy
- The Failure of Jennings’ Constitutional Experiment in Ceylon: How ‘Procedural Entrenchment’ led to Constitutional Revolution – Asanga Welikala
- Buddhism and the Constitution: The Historiography and Postcolonial Politics of Section 6 – Benjamin Schonthal
- Conflicted Solidarities? Muslims and the Constitution-making Process of 1970-72 – Farzana Haniffa
- Sinhalaness and its Reproduction, 1232-1818 – Michael Roberts
Part II – Constitutional Theory
- Sovereignty and the 1972 Constitution – Hallie Ludsin
- The Left and the 1972 Constitution: Marxism and State Power – Kumar David
- A Game of Mirrors: Constitutionalism and Exceptionalism in a Context of Nationalist Hegemony – David Rampton
- Republican Constitutionalism and Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism in Sri Lanka: Towards an Ontological Account of the Sri Lankan State – Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
- Beyond the Unitary Conception of the United Kingdom Constitution – Neil Walker
- Parliamentary Sovereignty and Written Constitutions in Comparative Perspective – Cheryl Saunders and Anna Dziedzic
- Sub-State Nations and the Constitutional State: Embedding Normative Principles within a Plurinational Constitution – Stephen Tierney
- Revolutions and Institutions: Political Violence and Sri Lanka’s 1972 Constitution – David C. Williams
- On the Republic at Forty, Culture at One-Forty – Qadri Ismail
- Whose Nation? Power, Agency, Gender and Tamil Nationalism – Ambika Satkunanathan
VOLUME 2
Part III – Constitutional Practice
- Ethnicity, Nationhood and Pluralism – Yash Ghai
- Democracy, Nationalism and the Nation-State – L.C. Arulpragasam
- Fundamental Rights and the 1972 Constitution – Jayampathy Wickramaratne
- Representation in Politics: Women and Gender in the Sri Lankan Republic –Maithree Wickramasinghe and Chulani Kodikara
- Gender Equality in Constitutional Design: An Overview for Sri Lankan Drafters – Susan H. Williams
- Constitution-making and Nation-building in Divided Societies – Nicholas Haysom
Part IV – Interviews and Recollections
- The Constitutional Form of the First Republic: The Sinhala-Buddhist Perspective: An Interview with Udaya Gammanpila
- The Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (Federal Party) and the Post-Independence Politics of Ethnic Pluralism: Tamil Nationalism Before and After the Republic: An Interview with R. Sampanthan
- From Federalism to Separatism: The Impact of the 1970-72 Constitution-making Exercise on Tamil Nationalism’s Ideological Transformation: An Interview with D. Sithadthan
- Tamils of Recent Indian Origin and the Constitution-making Process of 1970-72: An Interview with P.P. Devaraj
- Insurrection amidst Constitutional Revolution: The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the 1970-72 Constitution-making Process: An Interview with Lionel Bopage