ABSTRACT
This study has sought to examine inter-religious and inter-communal conflict in colonial and post-colonial Sri Lanka through the lens of space, focussing particularly on exclusion and inclusion of the religious Other, in the conviction that juxtaposing the colonial and post-colonial can throw light on each, but particularly on the post-war period and the controversial expansion of ‘Buddhist space’ into the former war-zones. Has this juxtaposition worked? Has the colonial shed light on the post-colonial or vice versa? Have I found patterns of continuity or rupture, or charted a middle way between the two?
