I am bitter that the british did that and the tamils had to suffer riot after riot and humiliation after humiliation,when they could easily have been a proud and hardworking people like the singaporeans having their own destiny under their own control as they had done for years of the jaffna kingdom before the portugeuse,dutch and british arrived and took the kingdom away piece by little piece.
If the sinhalese also apologize for colonizing the jaffna kingdom that would make it even better. I think with those apologies under their belt and their history thus recognized the tamils can move on with a federal system letting bygones be bygones and not crying over spilt milk any more. If the bandaranayake-chelvanayagam pact was not torn up by SWRD due to pressure from the unofficial rulers of srilanka,the bhuddhist monks,then we would have been a country now with the standard of living of somewhere between singapore and malaysia.
Now we are much lesser than even thailand whereas when the british left we were known as the pearl of the indian ocean. Invention of razor blade was , for shaving! Imagine monkey snatched it from you or you gave it to him?
The result is same! Democracy is such a blade given to us by the Donor. The ignoramus having failed with the device is still juggling with it and in the process inflict upon himself bad injuries all over. Now the blade is for everything but shaving!
I remember former prime minister of GB David Cameron visited a primary in the UK and a little black girl demanded an apology either for colonizing black countries or of enslaving them! These authors in my opinion , are just another set of dummies left behind by British legacy. Better late than never. Japan will one day regret their stubborness in not acknowledging their war crimes. The victims and their descendents feel that you have acknowledged the wrong done by your ancestors and now they can move on witout holding that grudge against you for what they have done.
I think that apology is owing on many fronts within the country. All nationalists operate on the denial mode. Shankar , Agree with you. There would be a day countries demand an apology for wrong doing but like the independence we got , it will come to Srilanka on platter on that day! Still good for humanity when it happens! However,my point was just a reminder that the idea published here was already directed at a leader by a kid.
An apology without demand would be a great lead to the standard of civilization. Not a single mention of what those barbaric imperialist did to native Sinhala-Buddhists. Brits dumped millions of their ex-Tamil slaves on native Sinhalese. Even today, the so called Tamils are actually ethnic Malabaris.
Ponnambalam and Chelvanagam who fathered eternal problems with the help of their British masters were also ethnic Malabaris. Ceylon Tamils do not speak a languages based Malayalam, which many times confused to Tamils Malabaris. In the first Tamil grammar book, Tholkappiyam, was written in third century BC, it is recognized already that there are two Tamils exist, written and spoken.
Tamil Brahmi used to writing has born only a few centuries ago. But there is no confusion when Malayalam took different path about Years ago.
Malayalam separated from Tamil by highly distorted spoken version and mix of Sanskrit. Ceylon Tamil is the one has the least Sanskrit mixing and very closely matching to grammatical language. This is telling Ceylon Tamil did not come from Malayalam, Further happening like that is unusual phenomena that a language evolved into another one and returning back to original.
Actually it is telling when the Ceylon Tamil was born. The connection existed between Ceylon Tamil and Malayalam was before Tholkapiyar. As Ceylon Tamil is closest language to the written Tamil than any other Tamil, it is the oldest Tamil. Yet that denial still has to come from highly experienced linguistic experts.
But our simple reunification is, though Ceylon Tamil is the most closely resembling Tamil to grammatical Tamil, but its colloquial part has its relationship with TN colloquial Tamil. Now we are clear that the Ceylon Tamil was in connection with TN at the narrow time interval of the starting of splitting the grammatical Tamil and the colloquial Tamil and the period of Tholkappiyam.
This is suggesting, basically Ceylon Tamils had their full connection with TN Tamils when the Tamil started to split into Grammatical and colloquial, but could not maintain that connection when Tholkappiryar officially split those Tamil into two separate Tamil.
Then, Kannagi became as the goddess of the Sinhala Kingdom and Chera Kingdom, but apparently other two picked it for short while and dropped eventually. Remember this, Ceylon Tamil is a Tamil born even before Tholkappiyar, a time at when it need not to have the two languages as spoken and written. In Ceylon Tamil, they both are very close.
I know you and many of your Sinhalese colleagues write without knowing what Ceylon Tamil is. But we Ceylon Tamils precisely guard this unique difference to establish our ID. Why oh why! It is a proven fact the ancestors of most of the present day Sinhalese , may be even your ancestors , are descended from largely low caste Indian Tamil immigrants who were dumped into the island by the Portuguese and then the Dutch.
Even many of the remnants of various South Indian invasions and migrations eventually took on a Sinhalese identity. Very few got assimilated into the Sri Lankan Tamil identity. Good try. You can lies but DNA will never lie. Real Siva Sankaran Sharma — It seems the ancestors of most of the present day Sinhalese and Tamils are the descendants of Sivapithecus and Ramapithecus. Johnny Baby — I know its fun to have fantasies however there is a time you come back to earth and face the reality.
I find this a lot of racist claptrap. They, too, were invaders. If the island must belong only to its earliest inhabitants, let us leave it to the descendants of Kuveni. Look at yourself in the mirror. When I look, it is clear that most of my genes come from South India. Nobody does. Colonialism was a nasty phase of History. There probably were Tamil Buddhists there 2, years ago. These things cannot be proved. With the exegesis I understand what cultured and refined ancestors we had.
Fault the Brits — I have no problem with that. But remember also that they hauled us in to the 20th Century. Now in the 21st Century, people like you cannot do without technology. People like you should befriend Donald Trump!
We are all the time asking the British to apologize!! Thats all we do. The fact that they, and prior to that the Portuguese and the Dutch were colonizing us is of no consequence. India, Singapore, malaya were all under the British. The Indonesians were colonized by the Dutch. What about the schools, railways, hospitals, cricket, etc etc?
Do you want them to apolgize for those?! Instead of looking for others to bail us out, we should just determinedly address our own shortcomings. Technology always finds its way into countries sooner or later. Hindu Number System which makes many technological advancements possible and easier spread from India into the West.
Thus, this legislation passed by a Sinhalese-dominated government failed to level the playing field; instead, it tilted the odds in the other direction and effectively discriminated against Tamil students. Ostensibly, these ethnic frictions had roots in the social destabilization caused by British occupation, and had more to do with reclaiming Sinhalese power and dignity than to cultural tensions between the Tamils and Sinhalese.
Even so, before long, a few militant Sri Lankan Tamils organized an insurgency. Some Tamils responded to these discriminatory policies with the idea of Tamil Eelam , a separate state for Tamils. While the idea appears to be extreme, the two groups already lived in somewhat separate spheres of the country: the Sinhalese in Southern, Western, and Central Sri Lanka, and the Tamils in the Northern and Eastern parts of the island.
Tamil Eelam aimed to formalize this existing geographic separation. The movement was built on the idea that Tamils and Sinhalese represented distinct ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. Nonetheless, Tamils had mixed reactions to the concept of Eelam. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights determined that the Sinhalese-dominated government has also been implicated in war crimes such as the torture of war prisoners and citizen disappearances. These conflicts, rooted in a quest for power and dignity, descended into brutal violence on both sides, and memories of this violence still haunt the country today.
Although the Civil War ended in , the current situation in Sri Lanka has only partially improved. A large portion of the Tamil population remains displaced.
While there are fewer political and civil rights issues, instances of torture and enforced disappearances persist even in recent years. In a more subtle sense, the Sri Lankan government continues to disenfranchise the Tamil community.
Sinahlese monuments, road signs, street and village names, as well as Buddhist places of worship became more common in predominantly Tamil areas. Even with intermittent warfare with Europeans, the kingdom was able to survive.
He was married to a Telugu-speaking Nayakkar princess from South India and was childless by her. The new king was crowned Sri Vijaya Rajasinha later that year. Kings of Nayakkar dynasty, launched several attacks on Dutch controlled areas, which proved to be unsuccessful.
During the Napoleonic Wars, fearing that French control of the Netherlands might deliver Sri Lanka to the French, Great Britain occupied the coastal areas of the island which they called Ceylon with little difficulty in Two years later, in , Rajadhi Rajasinha, 3rd of the four Nayakkar kings of Sri Lanka died of a fever.
Following the death, a nephew of Rajadhi Rajasinha, year-old Konnasami was crowned. The new king, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha faced a British invasion in , but was able to retaliate successfully. The Kandyan Convention formally ceded the entire country to the British Empire.
The beginning of the modern period of Sri Lanka is marked by the Colebrooke-Cameron reforms of Join Vikidia: create your account now and improve it! The Colonization of Sri Lanka began with the Portuguese in It ended in after the British gave Independence to Sri Lanka. During this period of years, Sri Lanka has been under the rule of Portuguese , Dutch , British and Trincomalee Harbour was under the French for few months in Only the coastal areas of Sri Lanka were colonized until the British conquered the whole island in Until then the inner areas were under the reign of the Sinhala king.
Sri Lanka declared Independence on 4th of February in , and became a Republic on 22nd May in Almeida found the island separated into three different kingdoms, each controlled by a king.
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