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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.
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.
The ethnic and cultural diversity of the Sri Lankan populations is a deeply rooted history. Presently, Sri Lanka is the home of not less than twenty ethnic groups. Some of them are too small and in political affairs they have no inluence as they cannot secure representation in parliament or the provincial councils. Nevertheless,
1 Ιαν 2013 · In precolonial times, equal socioeducational recognition accorded to local languages played a key role in promoting inter-ethnic harmony, co-existence and ‘connectedness’ between linguistically and ethnically diverse people of Sri Lanka.
1 Ιαν 2011 · De Mel, Samuel, and Soysa explore the causes, consequences, and significant factors associated with the ongoing ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese, Tamil, and Muslim populations.
Hindus, who are Tamils (Sri Lankan and Indian), constitute 15.48% (2,297.8). Muslims constitute the only ethnic group in Sri Lanka who have a single term to denote ethnicity and religion. They and Malays, who are also Muslim by religion, account for 7.55% (1,121.7) of the population.
This paper seeks to understand why people of African descent in Sri Lanka have a low profile. Drawing attention to cultural retentions and transformations, it examines the process of their assimilation within post-independent Sri Lanka.
