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In the island‘s contemporary history, one minority ethnic group (i.e., the Tamil) has been striving for self-determination, autonomy, and recognition while the majority ethnic group (i.e., the Sinhala) has been struggling to sustain its hegemonic rule over the minorities.
ethnic groups and their diversity. The recently released report of the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues on her mission to Sri Lanka in January 2017 has referred to “lack of detailed information available regarding the situation of smaller minorities”. This publication contains ample evidence that this fact does not
Sri Lanka has a clear tradition of ethnic and religious conflict in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century in times of socio-economic and political stress. In most instances, the violence was unleashed upon ethnic or religious minorities by members of the Sinhala majority.
The curious notion of numerically dominant ethnic group, Sinhala manifesting a “minority complex” or anxieties about minority groups, Tamil and Muslims, is evident in the rise of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism during the nineteenth and the twentieth century of the country.
26 Αυγ 2022 · In Sri Lanka, there are two distinct ways in which this happens. Firstly, there is the idea that ethnic grievances are fabricated and fanned by ethnic minority elites who have a vested interest in doing so.
1 Ιαν 2013 · This chapter has its focus on educational issues surrounding the promotion of local languages for interethnic harmony in Sri Lanka, where the promotion of Sinhala among minority Tamils, and Tamil among the majority Sinhalese has been the subject of many current political, policy and popular discourses.
One of the biggest challenges facing Sri Lanka is managing relations between its two largest ethnic groups: the (predominantly Buddhist) Sinhalese majority, and the (predominantly Hindu) Ceylon Tamil minority.
