CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Yamunan, Sruthisagar |
|---|---|
| Title | Linguistic Minority Rights: Language Laws, Conflict and Federalism in South and South-East Asia |
| Summary | This thesis explores the linguistic homogenising provisions in the Constitutions and statues of three jurisdictions of India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka and their effect on Tamil-speaking minorities in these countries. It explicates the problems of accommodating linguistic minority rights in jurisdictions which have a politically dominant linguistic majority. This thesis then examines the relationship between federalism and devolution and protection of linguistic minority rights in the context of the three jurisdictions by tracing the historical evolution of the state structures and their interplay with linguistic minority rights. It then argues that the current systems of federalism and devolution are inadequate to resist attempts of linguistic homogenisation. |
| Supervisor | Thiruvengadam, Arun Kumar |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/yamunan_sruthisagar.pdf |
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