Identity area
Reference code
UTSC 014-S2-SS1-5-24
Title
Public language & official language policy
Date(s)
- 1962-1965 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
2 cm of textual records
Context area
Name of creator
(1898-1977)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
File contains records regarding the Official Language Act and its implementation, and its impact on the Tamil speaking communities across the country. Includes letters, printed notices, newspaper clippings, telegrams, pages of Ceylon government gazette, and treasury circulars on various topics that range from the inequities of Official Language Policy implementation in the operations of all levels of government and Tamil employees across departments - recruitment, promotion, transfer, salary increments, scholarship, study abroad, training, opportunities, etc. to compulsory retirement of public officers and colonization in the traditional Tamil homelands.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Original folder number is 20 (1)
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- Tamil
- English