“With That, Discipline Will Also Come to Them”

Monsoon uncertainties, hydro-chemical infrastructures, and ecological time in Sri Lanka

“…A high standard of discipline will be enforced by imposing rules and regulations' (Department of Government Printing, 1990: 8, cited in Lynch 2007. The post-colonial Sri Lankan state was thus a chronocratic state, foregrounding time-discipline as the pathway to social and economic modernisationa politics of the temporal that decades later also came to characterise the immediate post-war years (Amarasuriya and Spencer 2015).…”