Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka AUTH-13569726 ISBN10: 1519679009

ISBN10: 1519679009

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Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka AUTH-13569726 ISBN10: 1519679009In 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