The socio-political, economic and cultural
position of Sri Lanka in the 19th and the early 20th century was based on the British
imperialist requirements. At that
period the evil influence of western domination, Buddhism had dropped to its
lowest ebb in Sri Lanka and the Sinhalese Buddhist identity began to lose
ground. However,
there was a considerable amount of religious agitation began among Sinhalese. Srimath
Anagarika Darmapala was one of the great personality who revival against
colonial missionary policies and got various efforts to reestablish the
Buddhism.