[lg policy] THE TAMIL LANGUAGE IN SRI LANKA Part 4a Posted on February 10th, 2019 KAMALIKA PIERIS The 1950s saw the rise of a strong, vocal Sinhala lobby which was against the 1944 decision of the State Council, to make Sinhala and Tamil the official languages of Ceylon, giving Tamil equal status to Sinhala. They wanted the 1944 decision revoked. They wanted Sinhala Only. This lobby wished to repudiate the language settlement reached in 1943-44 and to call for the replacement of English by Sinhala alone. In 1952, this lobby started to get restless. Around 1953 there was mounting agitation for Sinhala by the Buddhist Theosophical Society (BTS) and the YMBA. In 1954 Prime Minister Kotelawela went to Jaffna and said he was for parity of status between Sinhala and Tamil. Meetings were immediately held in ‘Sinhala areas’ to protest this statement. In January 1955 an important official statement on language policy was issued by the UNP government, reiterating the government policy of t
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Harold F. Schiffman
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