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4 August 1958

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Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Act. No. 28: an attempt to mitigate the impact of the ‘Sinhala Only Act’: allows for the use of Tamil in education, public service entrance exams and administration in the Northern and Eastern provinces.

Source
Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Neil DeVotta (2004), Stanford University Press.

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