I boycotted Sinhala language as I hated the Sinhala Only Act, NPC Chief Minister C.V Wigneswaran said. "I stopped learning Sinhala as I disliked the implementation of the Sinhala Only Act.

The second aspect of Sunethra’s comments relate to the impact of the Sinhala Only act on the country’s progress. Prior to 1956, although the country had gained independence in 1948 it was still ...

Taking advantage of the Sinhala Only Act, Minister Ilangaratne sent me the first Cabinet Paper in Sinhala, in which language I was not proficient. I therefore asked the Prime Minister for his ...

The booklet situates the 2009 genocide within a broader pattern of post-1948 and includes policies like 1956 Sinhala Only Act, pogroms such as Black July 1983 Genocide denial fuels injustice ...

exclusion and ethnocratic politics heralded by the passage of the Sinhala Only Act in 1956. That legislative instrument, implemented by Prime Minister S.W.R.D Bandaranaike, made Sinhalese the ...

Dharmapala’s goals were realized with the 1956 Sinhala Only Act and further enshrined in Sri Lanka’s 1972 constitution, which privileged Buddhism over other religions, essentially cementing an ...

This discrimination began in 1956, when Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike implemented the Sinhala Only Act, making Sinhalese the official language of the island and forcing Tamils out of key ...

It was, in some measure, an antidote to the ‘Sinhala Only Act’ of 1956, one of the most discriminatory laws passed targeting the island’s Tamil minorities, after the Ceylon Citizenship Act ...

The passage of the 1958 Sinhala Only Act, which discriminated against the Tamils, as well as the 1972 University admission standardization-a reverse form of affirmative action to benefit the ...