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. Sri Lankan Tamils (: இலங்கை தமிழர், ilankai tamiḻar also: ஈழத் தமிழர், īḻat tamiḻar ) or Ceylon Tamils, also known as Eelam Tamils in, are members of the ethnic group native to the South Asian island state of.
According to anthropological and archaeological evidence, Sri Lankan Tamils have a very long and have lived on the island since at least around the 2nd century BCE. Most modern Sri Lankan Tamils claim descent from residents of, a former kingdom in the north of the island and from the east.
They constitute a majority in the, live in significant numbers in the, and are in the minority throughout the rest of the country. 70% of Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka live in the Northern and Eastern provinces. Although Sri Lankan Tamils are culturally and linguistically distinct, genetic studies indicate that they are closely related to ethnic group in the island. The Sri Lankan Tamils are mostly with a significant Christian population.
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On topics including religion and the sciences flourished during the medieval period in the court of the Jaffna Kingdom. Since the beginning of the in the 1980s, it is distinguished by an emphasis on themes relating to the conflict. Are noted for their and retention of words not in everyday use in the state in India. Since Sri Lanka gained from in 1948, relations between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil communities have been strained. Rising ethnic and political tensions, along with in, and, led to the formation and strengthening of advocating.
The ensuing resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 people and the of thousands of others. The civil war ended in 2009 but there are continuing being committed by the and the rebel during its final months. A found that as many as 40,000 civilians may have been killed in the final months of the civil war. The end of the civil war has not improved conditions in Sri Lanka, with press freedom not being restored and the judiciary coming under political control.
One-third of Sri Lankan Tamils now live outside Sri Lanka. While there was significant migration during the British colonial period, the civil war led to more than 800,000 Tamils leaving Sri Lanka, and many have for destinations such as Canada, India and Europe as refugees. See also: There is little scholarly consensus over the presence of the Sri Lankan Tamil people in Sri Lanka, also known as in. One theory states that there was not an organised Sri Lankan Tamil people presence in Sri Lanka until the creation of a Tamil Kingdom in the 7th century CE, followed by much earlier invasions from. Another theory states that the Sri Lankan Tamils are descendant of the, who started to assimilate to Tamil culture and language around 3rd BCE. Other theories contends that Tamil people were one of the original inhabitants of the island.
Pre-historic period. South Indian type black and red ware pot sherds found in Sri Lanka and dated to 1st to 2nd century CE. Displayed at the.
The are ethnically related to people in South India and early populations of. It is not possible to ascertain what languages that they originally spoke as is considered diverged from its original source. According to, rather than migration of people, spread the and from peninsular India into an existing population, centuries before the.
And Tamil-Prakrit scripts were used to write the Tamil language during this period on the island. Settlements of culturally similar early populations of ancient Sri Lanka and ancient in India were excavated at at Pomparippu on the west coast and in on the east coast of the island. Bearing a remarkable resemblance to burials in the, these sites were established between the 5th century BCE and 2nd century CE.
Excavated sequences similar to that of were found in (Kadiramalai) on the north coast, dated to 1300 BCE. Cultural similarities in burial practices in South India and Sri Lanka were dated by archaeologists to 10th century BCE. However, Indian history and archaeology have pushed the date back to 15th century BCE. In Sri Lanka, there is radiometric evidence from that the non- symbol-bearing occur in the 10th century BCE.
The skeletal remains of an chief were excavated in Anaikoddai,. The name Ko Veta is engraved in Brahmi script on a seal buried with the skeleton and is assigned by the excavators to the 3rd century BCE. Ko, meaning 'King' in Tamil, is comparable to such names as Ko Atan, Ko Putivira and Ko Ra-pumaan occurring in contemporary inscriptions of ancient South India. Historic period with from the 2nd century BCE have been found from the north in, to the south in. They bore several inscriptions, including a clan name— vela, a name related to from. Evidence shows people identifying themselves as Damelas or Damedas (the word for Tamil people) in Anuradhapura, the capital city of the middle kingdom, and other areas of Sri Lanka as early as the 2nd century BCE. Excavations in the area of in southern Sri Lanka have unearthed locally issued coins, produced between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE, some of which carry local Tamil personal names written in early Tamil characters, which suggest that local Tamil merchants were present and actively involved in trade along the southern coast of Sri Lanka by the late classical period.
Other ancient inscriptions from the period reference a Tamil merchant, the Tamil householder residing in Ilubharata and a Tamil sailor named Karava. Two of the five ancient inscriptions referring to the Damedas (Tamils) are in Periya Pullyakulam in the, one is in Seruvavila in, one is in Kuduvil in and one is in Anuradhapura. Mention is made in literary sources of Tamil rulers bringing horses to the island in water craft in the second century BCE, most likely arriving at. Historical records establish that Tamil kingdoms in modern India were closely involved in the island's affairs from about the 2nd century BCE. Kudiramalai, Kandarodai and served as great northern Tamil capitals and emporiums of trade with these kingdoms and the from the 6th–2nd centuries BCE.
The archaeological discoveries in these towns and the, a historical poem, detail how Nāka-Tivu of Nāka-Nadu on the was a lucrative international market for pearl and conch trading for the Tamil fishermen. In, a historical poem, ethnic Tamil adventurers such as invaded the island around 145 BCE.
King, son of utilised superior to conquer Ceylon in the first century CE., and secularism were popular amongst the Tamils at this time, as was the proliferation of. The was influential in the region when the established the Andhra empire and its 17th monarch (20–24 CE) married a princess from the island. Ancient settled in the east of the island in the first few centuries of the common era to cultivate and maintain the area. The flourished. In the 6th century CE, a special coastal route by boat was established from the Jaffna peninsula southwards to Saivite religious centres in (Koneswaram) and further south to , passed a few small Tamil trading settlements in on the north coast.
The conquests and rule of the island by king (630–668 CE) and his grandfather King (537–590 CE) saw the erection and structural development of several around the island, particularly in the —these Pallava remained a popular and highly influential style of architecture in the region over the next few centuries. Tamil soldiers from what is now South India were brought to Anuradhapura between the 7th and 11th centuries CE in such large numbers that local chiefs and kings trying to establish legitimacy came to rely on them. By the 8th century CE Tamil villages were collectively known as Demel-kaballa (Tamil allotment), Demelat-valademin (Tamil villages), and Demel-gam-bim (Tamil villages and lands). Medieval period. Coylot Wanees Contrey (Coylot country), country in the northeast of the island on a 1681 CE map by as published in his book. In the 9th and 10th centuries CE, and incursions into Sri Lanka culminated in the, which lasted until the latter half of the 11th century CE.
Renamed the northern throne Mummudi Chola Mandalam after his conquest of the northeast country to protect Tamil traders being looted, imprisoned and killed for years on the island. 's conquest of the island led to the fall of four kings there, one of whom, Madavarajah, the king of Jaffna, was a usurper from the. These dynasties oversaw the development of several Kovils that administered services to communities of land assigned to the temples through royal grants. Their rule also saw the benefaction of other faiths. Recent excavations have led to the discovery of a limestone Kovil of Raja Raja Chola I's era on island, found with Chola coins from this period. The decline of Chola power in Sri Lanka was followed by the restoration of the in the late 11th century CE.
In 1215, following Pandya invasions, the Tamil-dominant dynasty established an independent on the Jaffna peninsula and other parts of the north. The Arya Chakaravarthi expansion into the south was halted by, a man descended from a family of merchants from in Tamil Nadu. He was the chief minister of the Sinhalese king Parakramabahu V (1344–59 CE). Vira Alakeshwara, a descendant of Alagakkonara, later became king of the Sinhalese, but by the admiral in 1409 CE.
The next year, the Chinese admiral erected a in in the south of the island, written in, and Tamil that recorded offerings he made to, and the God of Tamils Tenavarai Nayanar. The admiral invoked the blessings of Hindu deities at Temple of Perimpanayagam for a peaceful world built on trade. The 1502 map represents three Tamil cities on the east coast of the island—Mullaitivu, Trincomalee and Pannoa, where the residents grow and other spices, fish for pearls and seed pearls and worship idols, trading heavily with of. The Arya Chakaravarthi dynasty ruled large parts of northeast Sri Lanka until the in 1619 CE.
The coastal areas of the island were conquered by the and then became part of the in 1796 CE. The Sinhalese Nampota dated in its present form to the 14th or 15th century CE suggests that the whole of the Tamil Kingdom, including parts of the modern Trincomalee District, was recognised as a Tamil region by the name Demala-pattanama (Tamil city).
In this work, a number of villages that are now situated in the Jaffna, Mullaitivu and Trincomalee districts are mentioned as places in Demala-pattanama. The English sailor described walking into the island’s Tamil country in the publication, referencing some aspects of their royal, rural and economic life and annotating some kingdoms within it on a map in 1681 CE. Upon arrival of European powers from the 17th century CE, the Tamils' separate nation was described in their areas of habitation in the northeast of the island. The of the majority has also accommodated immigrants from South India since the 13th century CE. This led to the emergence of three new Sinhalese caste groups: the, the and the.
The Hindu migration and assimilation continued until the 18th century CE. Distribution of Sri Lankan Tamil people in Sri Lanka by DS Division according 2012 census. According to the 2012 census there were 2,270,924 Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka, 11.2% of the population. Sri Lankan Tamils constitute an overwhelming majority of the population in the and are the largest ethnic group in the.
They are minority in other provinces. 70% of Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka live in the Northern and Eastern provinces. Historical population Year Pop. ±% 1911 528,000 — 1921 517,300 −2.0% 1931 598,900 +15.8% 1946 733,700 +22.5% 1953 884,700 +20.6% 1963 1,164,700 +31.6% 1971 1,424,000 +22.3% 1981 1,886,900 +32.5% 1989 2,124,000 +12.6% 2012 2,270,924 +6.9% Source: Distribution of Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka (2012) Sri Lankan Tamils% Province% Sri Lankan Tamils 128,263 5.0% 5.7% 609,584 39.3% 26.8% 987,692 93.3% 43.5% 12,421 1.0% 0.6% 66,286 2.8% 2.9% 74,908 3.9% 3.3% 25,901 1.1% 1.1% 30,118 2.4% 1.3% 335,751 5.8% 14.8% Total 2,270,924 11.2% 100.0% There are no accurate figures for the number of Sri Lankan Tamils living in the.
Estimates range from 450,000 to one million. Other Tamil-speaking communities. Are classed as a separate ethnic group. The two groups of Tamils located in Sri Lanka are the Sri Lankan Tamils and the. There also exists a in Sri Lanka who are native speakers of Tamil language and are of faith.
Though several evidence point them towards being, they are however controversially listed as a separate ethnic group by the. Sri Lankan Tamils (also called Ceylon Tamils) are descendants of the Tamils of the old and east coast chieftaincies called. The Indian Tamils (or Hill Country Tamils) are descendants of bonded labourers sent from Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka in the 19th century to work on tea plantations. Most Sri Lankan Tamils live in the Northern and Eastern provinces and in the capital, and most Indian Tamils live in the central highlands. Historically, both groups have seen themselves as separate communities, although there has been a greater sense of unity since the 1980s.
In 1948, the government. Under the terms of an agreement reached between the Sri Lankan and Indian governments in the 1960s, about forty percent of the Indian Tamils were granted Sri Lankan citizenship, and most of the remainder were to India. By the 1990s, most Indian Tamils had received Sri Lankan citizenship. Regional groups Sri Lankan Tamils are categorised into three subgroups based on regional distribution, dialects, and culture: Negombo Tamils from the western part of the island, Eastern Tamils from the eastern part, and Jaffna or Northern Tamils from the north. Western Tamils.
Main article: Western Tamils, also known as or Puttalam Tamils, are native Sri Lankan Tamils who live in the western and districts. The term does not apply to Tamil immigrants in these areas. They are distinguished from other Tamils by their dialects, one of which is known as the, and by aspects of their culture such as. Most Negombo Tamils have assimilated into the ethnic group through a process known as. Sinhalisation has been facilitated by myths and legends. The Western Tamils caste hierarchy is predominantly dominated by the maritime, with other dominant groups such as the.
In Gampaha District, Tamils have historically inhabited the coastal region. In the Puttalam District, there was a substantial ethnic Tamil population until the first two decades of the 20th century. Most of those who identify as ethnic Tamils live in villages such as. The coastal strip from to is also known as the 'Catholic belt'. The, chiefly Roman Catholics, have preserved their heritage in the major cities such as, and also in villages such as.
Some residents of these two districts, especially the, are bilingual, ensuring that the Tamil language survives as a among migrating maritime communities across the island. Negombo Tamil dialect is spoken by about 50,000 people. This number does not include others, outside of Negombo city, who speak local varieties of the Tamil language. The bilingual catholic are also found in the western coastal regions, who trace their origins to the Tamil however identify themselves as. Some Tamil have been retained in these districts.
Outside the Tamil-dominated northeast, the Puttalam District has the highest percentage of place names of Tamil origin in Sri Lanka. Composite or hybrid place names are also present in these districts. Eastern Tamils. The in, mentioned in circa 700 CE by Eastern Tamils inhabit a region that spans the, and districts. Their history and traditions are inspired by local legends, native literature, and colonial documents. In the 16th century the area came under the nominal control of the, but there was scattered leadership under Vannimai chiefs in Batticaloa District who came with army in 1215.
From that time on, Eastern Tamil social development diverged from that of the Northern Tamils. Eastern Tamils are an agrarian-based society. They follow a similar to the South Indian or system.
The Eastern Tamil caste hierarchy is dominated by the,. The main feature of their society is the kudi system. Although the Tamil word kudi means a house or settlement, in eastern Sri Lanka it is related to matrimonial alliances. It refers to the and is found amongst most caste groups. Men or women remain members of the kudi of their birth and be brother or sister by relation. No man can marry in the same kudi because woman is always become sister to him.
But, a man can only marry in one of his sampantha kudis not in the sakothara kudis. By custom, children born in a family belong to mother's kudi.
Kudi also collectively own places of worship such as. Each caste contains a number of kudis, with varying names. Play mortal kombat 1. Aside from castes with an internal kudi system, there are seventeen caste groups, called Ciraikudis, or imprisoned kudis, whose members were considered to be in captivity, confined to specific services such as washing, weaving,. However, such restrictions no longer apply. The Tamils of the Trincomalee district have different social customs from their southern neighbours due to the influence of the Jaffna kingdom to the north. The people of the east coast also speak Tamil and have become assimilated into the Eastern Tamil caste structure.
Most Eastern Tamils follow customary laws called codified during the. Northern Tamils of being an independent kingdom lends legitimacy to the political claims of the Sri Lankan Tamils, and has provided a focus for their constitutional demands. Northern Tamil society is generally categorised into two groups: those who are from the in the north, and those who are residents of the to the immediate south. The Jaffna society is separated. Historically, the were in northern region dominant and were traditionally involved in. They constitute half of the population and enjoyed dominance under Dutch rule, from which community the colonial political elites also were drawn from. The dominant castes such as the, and and also other castes use the service of those collectively known as Kudimakkal.
The Panchamars, who serve as Kudimakkal consisted of the,. The maritime communities existed outside the agriculture-based caste system and is dominated by the. The caste of temple priests known as Kurukkals or are also held in high esteem. The important groups of artisans, known as who also serve as Kudimakkal consists of the Kannar (brass-workers), Kollar (blacksmiths), Tattar (goldsmiths), Tatchar (carpenters) and Kartatchar (sculptor). The Kudimakkal were who also gave ritual importance to the dominant castes. People in the Vanni districts considered themselves separate from Tamils of the Jaffna peninsula but the two groups did intermarry. Most of these married couples moved into the Vanni districts where land was available.
Vanni consists of a number of highland settlements within forested lands using -based cultivation. An 1890 census listed 711 such tanks in this area. Hunting and raising livestock such as and cattle is a necessary adjunct to the agriculture. The Tamil-inhabited Vanni consists of the, and eastern districts.
Historically, the Vanni area has been in contact with what is now South India, including during the medieval period and was ruled by the. Northern Tamils follow customary laws called, codified during the. Genetic affinities. See also:, and In 1981, about eighty percent of Sri Lankan Tamils were who followed the sect. The rest were mostly Roman Catholics who converted after the. There is also a small minority of Protestants due to missionary efforts in the 18th century by organisations such as the. Most Tamils who inhabit the are Roman Catholics, while those of the and are mainly Hindu.
And other churches, such as, are active among the internally displaced and refugee populations. The revealed a population of 22,254 amongst Sri Lankan Tamils. Accounting to roughly 1% of all Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka. The Hindu elite, especially the, follow the religious ideology of (Shaiva school) while the masses practice, upholding their faith in local village deities not found in formal Hindu scriptures. The place of worship depends on the object of worship and how it is housed. It could be a proper Hindu temple known as a Koyil, constructed according to the scripts (a set of scriptures regulating the temple cult).
More often, however, the temple is not completed in accordance with Agamic scriptures but consists of the barest essential structure housing a local deity. These temples observe daily (prayers) hours and are attended by locals. Both types of temples have a resident ritualist or priest known as a Kurukkal. A Kurukkal may belong to someone from a prominent local lineage like or Iyer community. In the Eastern Province, a Kurukkal usually belongs to sect.
Other places of worship do not have icons for their deities. The sanctum could house a ( culam), a stone, or a large tree. Temples of this type are common in the Northern and Eastern Provinces; a typical village has up to 150 such structures.
The offering would be done by an elder of the family who owns the site. A coconut oil lamp would be lit on Fridays, and a special rice dish known as would be cooked either on a day considered auspicious by the family or on the day, and possibly on. There are seven worshipped deities:, Annamar,. Villages have more Pillaiyar temples, which are patronised by local farmers.
Tamil Roman Catholics, along with members of other faiths, worship at the. Hindus have several temples with historic importance such as those at,. Temple and are attended by all religious communities. Language.
See also:, and Sri Lankan Tamils predominantly speak Tamil and its Sri Lankan dialects. These dialects are differentiated by the phonological changes and sound shifts in their evolution from classical or old Tamil (3rd century BCE–7th century CE). The Sri Lankan Tamil dialects form a group that is distinct from the dialects of the modern Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of India. They are classified into three subgroups: the Jaffna Tamil, the Batticaloa Tamil, and the. These dialects are also used by ethnic groups other than Tamils such as the Sinhalese, and Veddhas. Tamil loan words in Sinhala also follow the characteristics of Sri Lankan Tamil dialects.
Sri Lankan Tamils, depending on where they live in Sri Lanka, may also additionally speak. According to the 2012 Census 32.8% or 614,169 Sri Lankan Tamils also spoke Sinhala and 20.9% or 390,676 Sri Lankan Tamils also spoke English. The Negombo Tamil dialect is used by bilingual fishermen in the Negombo area, who otherwise identify themselves as Sinhalese. This dialect has undergone considerable convergence with spoken. The Batticaloa Tamil dialect is shared between Tamils, Muslims, Veddhas and in the Eastern Province. Batticaloa Tamil dialect is the most literary of all the spoken dialects of Tamil.
It has preserved several ancient features, remaining more consistent with the literary norm, while at the same time developing a few innovations. It also has its own distinctive vocabulary and retains words that are unique to present-day, a from Kerala that originated as a of old Tamil around 9th century CE. The Tamil dialect used by residents of the Trincomalee District has many similarities with the Jaffna Tamil dialect. The dialect used in Jaffna is the oldest and closest to old Tamil. The long physical isolation of the Tamils of Jaffna has enabled their dialect to preserve ancient features of old Tamil that predate, the grammatical treatise on Tamil dated from 3rd century BCE to 10th century CE. Also, a large component of the settlers were from the and which may have helped with the preservation of the dialect.
Their ordinary speech is closely related to classical Tamil. Conservational Jaffna Tamil dialect and Indian Tamil dialects are to an extent not mutually intelligible, and the former is frequently mistaken for by native Indian Tamil speakers. The closest Tamil Nadu Tamil variant to Jaffna Tamil is literary Tamil, used in formal speeches and news reading. There are also loan words that are unique to Jaffna Tamil. Education. A group of missionaries in Jaffna (circa 1890) Sri Lankan Tamil society values education highly, for its own sake as well as for the opportunities it provides.
The kings of the Aryacakravarti dynasty were historically patrons of literature and education. Temple schools and traditional classes on (known as Thinnai Pallikoodam in Tamil) spread basic education in religion and in languages such as Tamil and to the upper classes.
The Portuguese introduced western-style education after their conquest of the Jaffna kingdom in 1619. The Jesuits opened churches and seminaries, but the Dutch destroyed them and opened their own schools attached to when they took over Tamil-speaking regions of Sri Lanka. The primary impetus for educational opportunity came with the establishment of the American Ceylon Mission in Jaffna District, which started with the arrival in 1813 of missionaries sponsored by the.
The critical period of the missionaries' impact was from the 1820s to the early 20th century. During this time, they created Tamil translations of English texts, engaged in printing and publishing, established primary, secondary, and, and provided health care for residents of the Jaffna Peninsula. American activities in Jaffna also had unintended consequences. The concentration of efficient Protestant mission schools in Jaffna produced a revival movement among local Hindus led by, who responded by building many more schools within the Jaffna peninsula. Local Catholics also started their own schools in reaction, and the state had its share of primary and secondary schools. Tamil literacy greatly increased as a result of these changes. This prompted the British colonial government to hire Tamils as government servants in British-held Ceylon, India,.
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By the time Sri Lanka became independent in 1948, about sixty percent of government jobs were held by Tamils, who formed barely fifteen percent of the population. The elected Sinhalese leaders of the country saw this as the result of a British stratagem to control the majority Sinhalese, and deemed it a situation that needed correction by implementation of the. Literature. Main article: According to legends, the origin of Sri Lankan Tamil literature dates back to the (3rd century BCE–6th century CE). These legends indicate that the Tamil poet (Poothanthevanar from Sri Lanka) lived during this period. Medieval period Tamil literature on the subjects of medicine, mathematics and history was produced in the courts of the Jaffna Kingdom.
During 's rule, an academy for the propagation of the Tamil language, modelled on those of ancient, was established in Nallur. This academy collected manuscripts of ancient works and preserved them in the Saraswathy Mahal library. During the Portuguese and Dutch colonial periods (1619–1796), is the earliest known author who used literature to respond to Christian missionary activities.
He was followed by, who wrote and published a number of books. The period of joint missionary activities by the, American Ceylon, and Missions also saw the spread of modern education and the expansion of translation activities.
The modern period of Tamil literature began in the 1960s with the establishment of modern universities and a free education system in post-independence Sri Lanka. The 1960s also saw a social revolt against the system in Jaffna, which impacted Tamil literature:, Senkai aazhiyaan, Thamizhmani Ahalangan are the products of this period. After the start of the civil war in 1983, a number of poets and fiction writers became active, focusing on subjects such as death, destruction, and rape. Such writings have no parallels in any previous Tamil literature. The war produced displaced Tamil writers around the globe who recorded their longing for their lost homes and the need for integration with mainstream communities in Europe and North America. The which contained over 97,000 books and manuscripts was one of the biggest libraries in Asia, and through the much of has been obliterated.
See also: and The cuisine of Sri Lankan Tamils draws influence from that of India, as well as from colonialists and foreign traders. Rice is usually consumed daily and can be found at any special occasion, while spicy are favourite dishes for lunch and dinner. Is the name for a range of Sri Lankan Tamil dishes distinct from Indian Tamil cuisine, with regional variations between the island's northern and eastern areas. While rice with curries is the most popular lunch menu, combinations such as, tangy mango, and tomato rice are also commonly served., which are made of and look like knitted neatly laid out in circular pieces about 12 centimetres (4.7 in) in diameter, are frequently combined with tomato sothi (a soup) and curries for breakfast and dinner. Another common item is, a granular, dry, but soft steamed rice powder cooked in a bamboo cylinder with the base wrapped in cloth so that the bamboo flute can be set upright over a clay pot of boiling water. This can be transformed into varieties such as, spinach, and tapioca puttu.
There are also sweet and savoury puttus. Another popular breakfast or dinner dish is, a thin crusty pancake made with rice flour, with a round soft crust in the middle. It has variations such as egg or milk Appam.
Jaffna, as a peninsula, has an abundance of seafood such as crab, shark, fish, prawn, and squid. Meat dishes such as mutton, chicken and pork also have their own niche. Vegetable curries use ingredients primarily from the home garden such as pumpkin, seed, flower, and various green leaves. And hot powder are also frequently used. Appetizers can consist of a range of (pickles) and vadahams.
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Snacks and sweets are generally of the homemade 'rustic' variety, relying on, seed, coconut, and, to give them their distinct regional flavour. A popular alcoholic drink in rural areas is (toddy), made from sap. Snacks, savouries, sweets and porridge produced from the palmyra form a separate but unique category of foods; from the fan-shaped leaves to the root, the palmyra palm forms an intrinsic part of the life and cuisine of northern region. Politics.
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See also:, and Sri Lanka became an independent nation in 1948. Since independence, the political relationship between Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamil community has been strained. Sri Lanka has been unable to contain its ethnic violence as it escalated from sporadic terrorism to mob violence, and finally to civil war. The has several underlying causes: the ways in which modern ethnic identities have been made and remade since the colonial period, rhetorical wars over archaeological sites and, and the political use of the national past. The civil war resulted in the death of at least 100,000 people and, according to human rights groups such as, the of thousands of others ( see ). Since 1983, Sri Lanka has also witnessed massive civilian displacements of more than a million people, with eighty percent of them being Sri Lankan Tamils. Before independence The arrival of Protestant missionaries on a large scale beginning in 1814 was a primary contributor to the development of political awareness among Sri Lankan Tamils.
Activities by missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and and churches led to a revival among Hindu Tamils who created their own social groups, built their own schools and temples, and published their own literature to counter the missionary activities. The success of this effort led to a new confidence for the Tamils, encouraging them to think of themselves as a community, and it paved the way for their emergence as a cultural, religious, and linguistic society in the mid-19th century., which conquered the whole island by 1815, established a in 1833 by unifying the Tamil and Sinhalese nations on the island and assigning three European seats and one seat each for Sinhalese, Tamils. This council's primary function was to act as advisor to the, and the seats eventually became elected positions. There was initially little tension between the Sinhalese and the Tamils, when in 1913, a Tamil, was appointed representative of the Sinhalese as well as of the Tamils in the national legislative council. British Governor, who was appointed in 1918 however, actively encouraged the concept of 'communal representation'. Subsequently, the Donoughmore Commission in 1931 rejected communal representation and brought in. This decision was opposed by the Tamil political leadership, who realised that they would be reduced to a minority in parliament according to their proportion of the overall population.
In 1944, a leader of the Tamil community, suggested to the that a roughly equal number of seats be assigned to Sinhalese and minorities in an independent Ceylon (50:50)—a proposal that was rejected. But under section 29(2) of the constitution formulated by the commissioner, additional protection was provided to minority groups, such requiring a two-thirds majority for any amendments and a scheme of representation that provided more weight to the ethnic minorities. After independence. Territorial claims for the state of by various groups Shortly after independence in 1948, G.G. Ponnambalam and his joined 's moderate, western-oriented led which led to a split in the Tamil Congress., the leader of the splinter (FP or Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi), contested the, which denied citizenship to Tamils of, before the, and then in the in England, but failed to overturn it. The FP eventually became the dominant Tamil political party.
In response to the in 1956, which made Sinhala the sole official language, Federal Party Members of Parliament staged a nonviolent sit-in ( ) protest, but it was violently broken up by a mob. The FP was blamed and briefly banned after the targeting Tamils, in which many were killed and thousands forced to flee their homes. Another point of conflict between the communities was that effectively changed the demographic balance in the Eastern Province, an area Tamil nationalists considered to be their traditional homeland, in favour of the majority Sinhalese.
In 1972, a newly formulated constitution removed section 29(2) of the 1947 Soulbury constitution that was formulated to protect the interests of minorities. Also, in 1973, the was implemented by the Sri Lankan government, supposedly to rectify disparities in university enrolment created under. The resultant benefits enjoyed by Sinhalese students also meant a significant decrease in the number of Tamil students within the Sri Lankan university student population. Shortly thereafter, in 1973, the Federal Party decided to demand a. In 1976 they merged with the other Tamil political parties to become the (TULF).
By 1977 most Tamils seemed to support the move for independence by electing the Tamil United Liberation Front overwhelmingly. The elections were followed by the, in which around 300 Tamils were killed. There was further violence in 1981 when an organised Sinhalese mob went on a rampage during the nights of 31 May to 2 June, —at the time one of the largest libraries in Asia—containing more than 97,000 books and manuscripts. Rise of militancy. Tamil rebels in a pick-up truck in in 2004 Since 1948, successive governments have adopted policies that had the net effect of assisting the Sinhalese community in such areas as education and public employment.
These policies made it difficult for middle class Tamil youth to enter university or secure employment. The individuals belonging to this younger generation, often referred to by other Tamils as 'the boys' ( Pudiyangal in Tamil), formed many militant organisations.
The most important contributor to the strength of the militant groups was the massacre, in which between 1,000–3,000 Tamils were killed, prompting many youths to choose the path of armed resistance. By the end of 1987, the militant youth groups had fought not only the Sri Lankan security forces and the also among each other, with the (LTTE) eventually eliminating most of the others. Except for the LTTE, many of the remaining organisations transformed into either minor political parties within the or standalone political parties. Some also function as paramilitary groups within the Sri Lankan military. Human rights groups such as and, as well as the and the, have expressed concern about the state of, and both the government of Sri Lanka and the rebel LTTE have been accused of human rights violations.
Although Amnesty International in 2003 found considerable improvement in the human rights situation, attributed to a ceasefire and peace talks between the government and the LTTE, by 2007 they reported an escalation in, and armed clashes, which created a climate of fear in the north and east of the country. End of the civil war In August 2009, the civil war ended with total victory for the government forces. During last phase of the war many Tamil civilians and combatants were killed. The government estimated that over 22,000 LTTE cadres had died. The civilian death toll is estimated to vary from 6,500 to as high as 40,000. This is in addition to the 70,000 Sri Lankans killed up to the beginning of the last phase of the civil war. Over 300,000 Tamil civilians were interred in and eventually released.
As of 2011, there were still few thousand alleged combatants in state prisons awaiting trials. The Sri Lankan government has released over 11,000 rehabilitated former LTTE cadres. (a north western town), says 146,679 people seem to be unaccounted between 2008 October and at the end of the civil war. Tamil presence in Sri Lankan politics and society is facing a revival. In 2015 elections the Tamil national alliance got the third largest amound of seats in the Parliament and as the largest parties UNP and SLFP created a unity government TNA leader R.Sampanthan was appointed as the opposition leader K. Sripavan beame the 44th Chief justice and the second Tamil to hold the position. Migrations.
See also: and Pre-independence The earliest Tamil speakers from Sri Lanka known to have travelled to foreign lands were members of a called Tenilankai Valanciyar (Valanciyar from Lanka of the South). They left behind inscriptions in South India dated to the 13th century.
In the late 19th century, educated Tamils from the Jaffna peninsula migrated to the British colonies of (Malaysia and Singapore) and India to assist the colonial bureaucracy. They worked in almost every branch of public administration, as well as on plantations and in industrial sectors. Prominent Sri Lankan Tamils in the Forbes list of billionaire include:, and, and Singapore's former foreign minister and deputy prime minister, are of Sri Lankan Tamil descent., an Indian-based Tamil language revivalist, was born in the Jaffna peninsula. Post civil war. Sri Lankan-Canadian Tamil children in traditional clothes in Canada After the start of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the, there was a mass migration of Tamils trying to escape the hardships and perils of war. Initially, it was middle class professionals, such as doctors and engineers, who emigrated; they were followed by the poorer segments of the community.
The fighting drove more than 800,000 Tamils from their homes to other places within Sri Lanka as and also overseas, prompting the (UNHCR) to identify them in 2004 as the largest asylum-seeking group. The country with the largest share of displaced Tamils is Canada, with more than 200,000 legal residents, found mostly within the. And there are a number of prominent Canadians of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, such as author, and, former president of the.
Are mostly refugees of about over 100,000 in special camps and another 50,000 outside of the camps. In western European countries, the refugees and immigrants have integrated themselves into society where permitted. Singer (born Mathangi Arulpragasam) and journalist are, among others, notable people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus have built a number of prominent Hindu temples across North America and Europe, notably in Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, and the UK. Sri Lankan Tamils continue to seek refuge in countries like Canada and Australia. The and the Australian government have declared Tamil refugees as economic migrants. Canada has tightened controls on their refugee program due to various abuses within the Canadian refugee system.
A Canadian government survey found that over 70% of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees have gone back to Sri Lanka for holidays raising concerns over the legitimacy of their refugee claims. According to Wenzlhuemer it is not certain when the first Tamil settlers arrived at Sri Lanka. Also according to Wenzlhuemer, the first Tamils settled at Sri Lanka a few centuries after the first Indo-Aryan settlers, who arrived at Sri Lanka in the 5th century BCE. Dameda vanija gahapati Vishaka. Ilu bhartechi Dameda karite Dameda gahapatikana. Dameda navika karava.
Upon arrival in June 1799, Sir Hugh Cleghorn, the island's first British colonial secretary wrote to the British government of the traits and antiquity of the Tamil nation on the island in the Cleghorn Minute: “Two different nations from a very ancient period have divided between them the possession of the island. First the Sinhalese, inhabiting the interior in its Southern and Western parts, and secondly the another name for Tamils who possess the Northern and Eastern districts. These two nations differ entirely in their religion, language, and manners.” McConnell, D., 2008; Ponnambalam, S. 1983. Data is based on census except 1989 which is an estimate. References.
A place to watch and share Sri Lankan videos Since then many new television networks have come in to existence within Sri Lanka. There are also a number of Satellite networks and pay per view television networks in Sri Lanka.
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The national telecommunications provider also launched an service in 2008. Sinhala Teledrama & News, Lakvision TV: Sri Lankan Web TV Watch Sri Lankan Teledramas Sinhala News Video SriLankan TV Programs & TV Shows Lakvision TV brings online Sinhala Songs, Music and News from Sri Lanka and Australia.
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