The policy of standardization was a policy implemented by the Sri Lankan government in 1971[1] to curtail the number of Tamil students selected for certain faculties in the universities.[2][3][4] In 1972, the government added a district quota as a parameter within each language.[1]
- ^ a b The Root Causes of the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
- ^ Chelvadurai Manogaran, Ethnic conflict and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, University of Hawaii press, 1987, p116
- ^ A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, The Break-up of Sri Lanka
The Sinhalese-Tamil Conflict, Hurst Publishers, 1988, p131
- ^ C.R. Da Silva, The impact of Nationalism on Education: The school Take-over 1961 and the University Admissions Crisis 1970-1975, Collective Identities, Nationalism, and Protests in Modern Sri Lanka, pp.486