Publications

Publication details [#30260]

Dharmadasa, K.N.O. 1992. Language, religion, and ethnic assertiveness: The growth of Sinhalese nationalism in Sri Lanka. University of Michigan Press. xi + 366 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | identity negotiation | nationalism | religion

Language as a subject

Sinhala

Annotation

This book on language, religion, ethnic consciousness and nationalism in Sri Lanka focuses on the process that transformed the Sinhala language from an unideologized feature of primordial in-group consciousness into an overt instrument of self-assertion and group solidarity.

Reviewed by

Guneratne, Arjun. 1996. Review of $Language, religion, and ethnic assertiveness: The growth of Sinhalese nationalism in Sri Lanka.