Isbn: 9780804749244 - blowback: linguistic nationalism, institutional decay, and ethnic conflict in sri lanka (contempory issues in asia and the pacific) (8 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: very good. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2004. Paperback. 298 pp. English text. Condition very good. - 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. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780804749244. Keywords : , Sri Lanka.…

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Zustand: New. In the 1950s Sinhalese linguistic nationalism precipitated a situation in which the movement to replace English as the main language and replace with it with Sihala and Tamil was abandoned and Sinhala alone became the official language. This work looks at t.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Blowback | Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka | Neil Devotta | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2004 | Stanford University Press | EAN 9780804749244 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu.…