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Blowback - Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka (Paperback)
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Blowback - Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
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In the mid-1950s, Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese politicians began
outbidding one another on who could provide the greatest advantages
for their community, using the Sinhala language as their
instrument. The appeal to Sinhalese linguistic nationalism
precipitated a situation in which the movement to replace English
as the country's official language with Sinhala and Tamil (the
language of Sri Lanka's principal minority) was abandoned and
Sinhala alone became the official language in 1956. The Tamils'
subsequent protests led to anti-Tamil riots and institutional
decay, which meant that supposedly representative agencies of
government catered to Sinhalese preferences and blatantly
disregarded minority interests. This in turn led to the Tamils'
mobilizing, first politically then militarily, and by the mid-1970s
Tamil youth were bent on creating a separate state.
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