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Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka

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Availability:In StockContributor:Neil DevottaSeries:Contemporary Issues in Asia and the PacificPublish date:2004-04-09Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804749244ISBN-10:804749248UPC:9780804749244Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:World, AsiaBook Topic:Asian, SouthSize:9.00 x 6.24 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCT2ZE9RMT

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804749244ISBN-10:804749248UPC:9780804749244Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:World, AsiaBook Topic:Asian, SouthSize:9.00 x 6.24 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCT2ZE9RMT
Neil DeVotta is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hartwick College, New York.
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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