Languages and National Identity: The Sinhalese and Others over the Centuries.
The collective identity of Sinhala-speakers over four centuries dating from the 1590s is analyzed with due attention to the structural form of (a) the Kingdom of Kandy and (b) the British colonial regime that took control of the whole island by 1815/18. The analysis dwells on the modes of oral, visu...
| Publicado en: | Nationalism & Ethnic Politics Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 75 - 103 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Summer2003
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