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Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
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ISBN-13:
9780804749237
Veröffentl:
2004
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.04.2004
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Neil Devotta
Gewicht:
522 g
Format:
236x153x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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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