ABSTRACT
Small states, as a category of actorness, enter the discourse of empirical trends only when the post-colonial leaderships deploy the propaganda claim that their new states have been vulnerable since inception. The mandala was an inspiration from Buddhism, whose ideological footprint covered much of present-day South Asia, Southeast Asia and even parts of present-day southern China. The Cold War had indeed foisted upon much of Asia a new combination of demographic and geographical disparities with ideological insecurity. The advent of British colonialism, by the 1700s, introduced a sizable Tamil population in the northern part of the island through officially-encouraged migration from southern India. The socio-political injuries of colonialism were to be avenged by the newly enfranchised, hitherto marginalized, ethnic majority, repeating a.
