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Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka Paperback / softback - 2004
by Neil DeVotta
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- Title Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
- Author Neil DeVotta
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition LATER PRINTING
- Condition New
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
- Date 2004-04-09
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780804749244
- ISBN 9780804749244 / 0804749248
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.24 x 0.69 in (22.86 x 15.85 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Library of Congress subjects Ethnic conflict - Sri Lanka, Tamil (Indic people) - Sri Lanka - Politics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003027044
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.154
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From the jacket flap
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.