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

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

Devotta, Neil Devotta

304 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

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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 national...

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