Banning of Tamil language media importation

Banning of Tamil language media importation

Banning of Tamil language media importation by the government of Sri Lanka in 1970 was perceived by some minority Sri Lankan Tamil politicians as directed against their cultural survival. Importing Tamil language films, books, magazines, journals from Tamil Nadu, India were banned.

Sri Lanka also proscribed the local branch of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham and the Tamil Youth League. Culturally, the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people felt cut off from Tamil Nadu. But some argue that it led to native Sri Lankan Tamil literature and media to thrive without competition from India.

References

ee also

*Sri Lankan Civil War
*Sri Lankan state sponsored colonisation schemes
*Policy of standardization
*Loss of citizenship by Hill country Tamils


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