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Much of her work has focused on cultural studies of postwar Sri Lanka from a perspective of feminism, justice, and the arts. [7] She has written extensively on the militarization of Sri Lankan society during the quarter-century of ethnic war, and its lingering effects after the war's end. [7]
The origins of the Sri Lankan Civil War lie in the continuous political rancor between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Sri Lankan Tamils.The war has been described by social anthropologist Jonathan Spencer as an outcome of how modern ethnic identities have been made and re-made since the colonial period, with the political struggle between minority Tamils and the Sinhalese-dominant ...
During the British colonial era, English was the official language in Ceylon (known as Sri Lanka since 1972). Until the passage of the Free Education Bill in 1944, education in the English language was the preserve of the Sri Lankan elite and the ordinary people had little knowledge of it.
The story is set in the 1920s in Cinnamon Gardens, a wealthy suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.It depicts the political unrest at the end of Britain’s colonial rule. The novel illustrates the socio-political climate of 1920s Sri Lanka, which helps to elucidate many of the issues that continue to plague modern-day Sri Lanka.
The policy of standardization was a policy implemented by the Sri Lankan government in 1971 [1] to curtail the number of Tamil students selected for certain faculties in the universities. [2] [3] [4] In 1972, the government added a district quota as a parameter within each language. [1]
Having taken root in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1796, Sri Lankan English has gone through over two centuries of development.In terms of its socio-cultural setting, Sri Lankan English can be explored largely in terms of different stages of the country's class and racial tension, economy, social disparity, and postwar rehabilitation and reconciliation. [10]
An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier in the Kingdom of Kandy, on the island today known as Sri Lanka. It provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Sri Lankan life.