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| From Sovereignty to Modernity: Revisiting the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms - Transforming the Buddhist and Colonial Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon | ||
| 作者 | Casinader, Niranjan (著) ; de Silva-Wijeyeratne, Roshan (著) ; Godden, Lee (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Comparative Legal History |
| 卷期 | v.6 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2018 |
| 頁次 | 34 - 64 |
| 出版者 | Taylor & Francis |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| 出版地 | Oxfordshire, UK [牛津郡, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | colonial governmentality; Asokan Persona; Buddhism and nationalism; colonial education; judicial reform; land tenure; contract and labour |
| 摘要 | The Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms (1831) have been characterised by David Scott (1995) as marking the transformation of colonial Sri Lanka from one kind of political rationality – that of mercantile sovereignty – to another – that of colonial governmentality. Whilst consonant with the view that the Commission marked a moment when the colonial administration moved away from a strategic reliance on Asokan or Buddhist forms of authority in the earliest phase of British rule, we argue that there is a more nuanced genealogy to this transition. The Reforms, while directed to the administration, judicial and political institutions of the colony, also contemplated extensive commercial restructuring that inculcated a self- improvement mode into ‘everyday life’. Drawing on colonial archives, we show how elements of a logic of governmentality, such as educational, land, and fiscal reform, were utilised at different times by the colonial administration to commence the modernisation of the colony well before 1832. It is also evident that the transformation was partial, and at points strongly resisted by local Buddhist communities. Instead of marking a clear point of transformation, the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms gave legibility and a national imprimatur to a process already in train, while providing further impetus to a socio-political rationality that had begun to shift decades prior. The secular logic of the colonial State, however, was later to unleash a movement of Sinhalese Buddhist reform and cultural re-valuation that generated, ‘a more modernised Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism to create expanding areas of social, cultural and religious life for the nationalist cause.’ |
| 目次 | Keywords 34 I. Introduction 34 II. The Colebrooke Cameron Report on colonial Ceylon 38 1. The Commission of Eastern Inquiry 38 2. Discontinuity in British Rule in Ceylon 39 III. The early phase of British colonial rule and the Asokan Buddhist State 41 IV. Interventions by the British colonial state 47 1. The new rationality in education 47 2. Constructing an economic rationality: land, labour and revenue 50 3. The Kandyan Convention 1815: reforming society? 54 4. Monopolies and rents 56 5. Judicial and administrative reform 57 V. Conclusion: re-evaluating the significance of the reforms 62 Acknowledgments 64 Disclosure statement 64 |
| ISSN | 2049677X (P); 20496788 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677X.2018.1469273 |
| 點閱次數 | 106 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.07.12 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.07.12 |
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