ABSTRACT
This chapter critically engages with the history of the taken-as-given island spatiality of Sri Lankan statehood. By bringing into conversation the colonial envisioning and materializations of the island-colony, the contested political trajectories of the post-independent statehood, and diaspora experiences of Sri Lankanness, the chapter argues that the postcolonial geography of the Sri Lankan island nation has always been contingent, cultural, and friable.
