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

Neil DeVotta · Stanford University Press (2004)

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The definitive academic study of the ethnic-outbidding dynamic produced by the 1956 Official Language Act ('Sinhala Only'). DeVotta names the institutional-decay mechanism by which majoritarian linguistic policy cascades into deeper minority alienation and eventual constitutional rupture.

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