 ... toward the Tamils, saw themselves not as the majority, however, but as a minority in a large Tamil sea that included the 50 million Tamils across the strait in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. In 1972, Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka ("resplendent...  Sri Lanka: Current Issues and Historical Background - Page 2by Walter Nubin - 2002 - 224 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | S. L. Sharma, T. K. Oommen - Nationalism - 2000 - 252 pages
...(Chandraprema 1991; Moore 1993). For instance, some of the more ardent Sinhala nationalist politicians of both the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the United National Party (UNP), the two leading political parties primarily representing the majority ethnic group, came from the upwardly... | |
 | Steve Garner - Ethnicity - 2008 - 385 pages
...ethnic form in the 1940s and 50s, in the wake of competition for votes by the two Sinhalese political parties, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the United National Party (UNP), during the early years of independence. With the extension of the welfare state and the public sector,... | |
 | Frank H Columbus - Asia - 1998 - 226 pages
...1972, Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka ("resplendent land"), as it was known in Indian epic literature. POLITICAL SITUATION Sri Lanka's political life has...Westminster parliamentary model. In 1978, however, the UNP instituted a strong executive presidential system of government. Under this French-style system,... | |
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