The Sinhala Only Act

With the exodus of the British in 1948, the re emergence of a separate Tamil national identity was eliminated by the actions of a Sinhala majority who got the power from the British colonist, They regarded the island of Sri Lanka as the exclusive home of Sinhala Buddhism and the Tamil people as `outsiders' who were to be subjugated and assimilated within the confines of an unitary Sinhala Buddhist state. The Sinhala Only Act (formally the Official Language Act) was a law passed in the Sri Lankan parliament in 1956.The enhancement of the law that after the 8 years from the independence, on that we can say as a highlight-able political mistake which done by the pre-government of the srilanka which had most members from the singala majority. At the time they forced Sinhalese as the sole state language for official purposes. They said that law for, just gained independence to distance themselves from their colonial masters. However the hidden aim was the assassination of Tamil language. But they were not remembering about that the north and the east part of Srilanka(cylon) natively inhabited by the “Tamil” speaking people. There was grave and irreparable injustice was done to the minority who speaking Tamil language as mother tongue. They never think about the possibility of protest and even may decide to break away from the rest of the country. We the singala government headed by the S.W.R.D Bandaranayake, made an effort to accumulate the Tamil identity in to one. That is Srilanka as a Singala, buddist country. There was a rise of racism followed as fundamentalism.