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Sri Lankan Tamils (Tamil: இலங்கை தமிழர், ilankai tamiḻar or ஈழத் தமிழர், īḻat tamiḻar), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to...124 KB (12,857 words) - 18:07, 22 August 2024
1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 had shown Ceylon Tamils and Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka grouped together. By 1911 Indian Tamils were shown as a separate category...39 KB (4,066 words) - 17:09, 18 August 2024
Tamils of Sri Lanka are Tamil people of Indian origin in Sri Lanka. They are also known as Malayaga Tamilar, Hill Country Tamils, Up-Country Tamils or...39 KB (4,811 words) - 09:06, 13 August 2024
groups of Tamils in Sri Lanka: the Sri Lankan Tamils and the Indian Tamils. The Sri Lankan Tamils (or Ceylon Tamils) are descendants of the Tamils of the...115 KB (12,724 words) - 15:53, 18 August 2024- the Sinhalese majority and half to the minority communities: Ceylon Tamils, Indian Tamils, Muslims and others. After Sri Lanka achieved independence in...26 KB (3,238 words) - 13:29, 19 October 2023
- professionals. In Tamil Nadu they are also known as Ceylon Tamils or Jaffna Tamils. During 19th century and early 20th century some Sri Lankan Tamils especially...15 KB (1,574 words) - 23:47, 24 July 2024
anti-Tamil pogrom and riots in Ceylon, also known as the 58 riots, refer to the first island-wide ethnic riots and pogrom to target the minority Tamils in...43 KB (5,726 words) - 22:01, 15 August 2024- This is a list of notable Tamils of Sri Lanka by their country of domicile or origin. All communities that speak (or spoke) Tamil and originally came from...37 KB (3,510 words) - 18:46, 13 June 2024
this was not applied to the Indian Estate Tamils, due to opposition from caste-conscious Colombo Tamils, vote conscious Kandyan Sinhalese, as well as...9 KB (1,042 words) - 08:51, 30 January 2024
தமிழ் ஈழம்) is a proposed independent state that many Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Eelam Tamil diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of Sri...80 KB (8,458 words) - 10:20, 19 August 2024- Sinhala Only Act (redirect from Official Language Act No. 33 of 1956 (Ceylon))of Ceylon's three largest minority ethnic groups, the Indian Tamils, Sri Lankan Tamils and Moors, who together accounted for around 29% of the country's...24 KB (2,136 words) - 02:59, 19 August 2024
History of Sri Lanka (redirect from Ancient Ceylon)Manansala The laws and customs of the Tamils of Ceylon, Henry Wijayakone Tambiah, Tamil Cultural Society of Ceylon 1954, p. 65. Wickramasinghe, Nira (2015)...84 KB (10,168 words) - 11:13, 15 August 2024
All Ceylon Tamil Congress (Tamil: அகில இலங்கைத் தமிழ்க் காங்கிரஸ்), is the oldest Tamil political party in Sri Lanka. The ACTC was founded in 1944 by...15 KB (738 words) - 10:30, 30 April 2024- S. J. V. Chelvanayakam (category All Ceylon Tamil Congress politicians)a father figure to Ceylon's Tamils, to whom he was known as "Thanthai Chelva" (father Chelva). Born into an expatriate Ceylon Tamil family in Malaya, Chelvanayakam...69 KB (7,015 words) - 20:07, 28 April 2024
- citizenship to Indian Tamils, who were 11% of the population. During the 19th and early 20th centuries the British rulers of Ceylon recruited large numbers...10 KB (1,095 words) - 08:19, 4 April 2024
identity: The Tamils of Sri Lanka, p.45 Indrapala, K The Evolution of an ethnic identity: The Tamils of Sri Lanka, p.389 Ragupathy, Tamil Social Formation...10 KB (957 words) - 08:57, 31 July 2024
the Sinhala Only Act, which curtailed opportunities for Tamils in Sri Lanka. Before 1956, Tamils were proportionately over-represented in the civil service...36 KB (4,253 words) - 23:02, 17 July 2024
Jaffna kingdom (category Articles containing Tamil-language text)Nadarajan, V. History of Ceylon Tamils, p. 72 Indrapala, K. Early Tamil Settlements in Ceylon, p. 16 Coddrington, K. Ceylon coins and currency, pp. 74–76...58 KB (6,179 words) - 20:38, 14 August 2024
Tamil settlement of Sri Lanka refers to the settlement of Tamils, or other Dravidian peoples, from Southern India to Sri Lanka. Due to Sri Lanka's close...19 KB (2,294 words) - 12:24, 2 March 2024
- 1901 the total population of Ceylon was 3,565,954 distributed according to nationality as follows: Sinbalese, 2,330,807; Tamils, 951,740; Moors, 228,034;
- බණ්ඩාරනායක - Tamil: சாலமன் வெஸ்ட் ரிட்ஜ்வே டயஸ் பண்டாரநாயக்கா; 8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959) was the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka)
- Ceylon until 1972. The first meter was installed in 1927 while the country was under British rule. The stamps are grouped by inscription: A – CEYLON B