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It is this artificial nationalism, a nationalism that had English as the lingua franca that was stillborn. It is true that the Burgher leadership was replaced by a Tamil leadership and subsequently by a Sinhala leadership, but the attitudes did not change as they were all from the same Christian background in culture whether they are Buddhists or Hindus in religion. The Ceylonese wanted to build the Ceylonese nation ignoring the work of Panduaba, and not Aba, who had built the Sinhala nation some two thousand four hundred years ago. Though the artificial nationalism was stillborn the Ceylonese have kept the corpse, again by artificial means in the hope that may be Aba will resurrect it. |
