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Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka - Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific Neil DeVotta New edition
Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka - Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
Neil DeVotta
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 the subsequent outcome this had.
304 pages, 10 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 9, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804749244 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 152 × 34 mm · 438 g |
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