Sinhalese nationalists engineered demographic consolidation of Tamil regions through state land seizure.

Evidence

Indeed, the percentage of Sinhalese and Buddhists has increased due to the ethnic conflict and the subsequent exodus of thousands of Tamils from the island, coupled with the state’s discriminatory policies toward its Indian Tamils, which caused thousands more among the third and fourth generation born in Sri Lanka to be forcibly resettled in India—so that the island’s Indian Tamil population dropped from 11.73 percent in 1946 to 5.52 percent in 1981. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 277 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tamil nationalism and the LTTE were manufactured by Sinhalese ethnocentric government policies. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 227; State expulsion and ethnic conflict raised the Sinhalese share of Sri Lanka’s population. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 277; Military security zones double as demographic colonization of contested Tamil land — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 272 (+8 more)

Related

• State expulsion and ethnic conflict raised the Sinhalese share of Sri Lanka’s population. (similarity 0.92)
• State ethnic-cleansing policies have measurably increased the Sinhalese share (similarity 0.92)
• State-engineered colonization has radically altered Sri Lanka’s eastern ethnic demographics (similarity 0.90)
• Nationalists pursue war to deliberately displace Tamils and boost Sinhalese dominance (similarity 0.88)
• Tamil nationalism and the LTTE were manufactured by Sinhalese ethnocentric government policies. (similarity 0.86)
• Nationalists tie Buddhist fertility to preserving the unitary state against Tamil claims (similarity 0.86)
• Sinhalese nationalists wage war to displace Tamils and Sinhalize the northeast (similarity 0.86)
• Military security zones double as demographic colonization of contested Tamil land (similarity 0.86)
• A territorial-integrity fear drives Sinhalese opposition to any Tamil autonomy. (similarity 0.85)
• Sinhalese governments manufactured Tamil separatism through base-securing ethnocentric competition. (similarity 0.84)
• Sinhalese governments invented Tamil separateness for political self-preservation (similarity 0.84)
• Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism will persist and could expand to other minorities (similarity 0.82)
• Tamil economic success in Colombo provokes nationalist campaigns to drive Tamils out (similarity 0.82)
• Sinhalese politicians frame both protection and violence toward Tamils as majority prerogative (similarity 0.81)
• Ethnically divisive policies undermined Sri Lanka’s liberal democratic promise (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• State expulsion and ethnic conflict raised the Sinhalese share of Sri Lanka’s population. #corroborates (0.82) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 277