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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 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 Ta
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- Author
- Neil DeVotta
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781503624566
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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