Download or read book The Tamils in Early Ceylon written by C. Sivaratnam and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tamil Culture in Ceylon written by M. D. Raghavan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of an Ethnic Identity written by Kārttikēcu Intirapālā and published by South Asian Studies Centre Sydney. This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Divided Island written by Samanth Subramanian and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samanth Subramanian has written about politics, culture, and history for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Now, Subramanian takes on a complex topic that touched millions of lives in This Divided Island. In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to an end the civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere, leaving few places, and fewer people, untouched. What happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country's soul? Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past, he tells the story of Sri Lanka today. Through travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how the powerful become cruel, and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories.
Download or read book Origin And Spread Of The Tamils written by V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains Ramachandra Dikshitar’s 1930 study of the Tamils, “Origin and Spread of the Tamils”. Tamil people are a Dravidian ethnic group who speak Tamil as their mother tongue. Numbering around 77 million people that live in many different countries, the Tamils are one of the of the biggest and oldest ethno-linguistic cultural groups that exist without their own state. This fascinating and insightful study is highly recommended for those with an interest in the Tamil people, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Vishnampet R. Ramachandra Dikshitar (1896 - 1953), was a historian, Indologist and Dravidologist from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was a professor of history and archaeology in the University of Madras and authored multiple text books on Indian history. Many vintage texts such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book The Laws and Customs of the Tamils of Ceylon written by Henry Wijayakone Tambiah and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of an Ethnic Identity written by K. Indrapala and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long awaited publication embodies the researches of a lifetime undertaken by Dr K Indrapala from the time he started his career as an academic in the University of Ceylon in 1960. It gives shape to his long held, though often controversial views that the Sinhalese and Tamils of Sri Lanka are descended from common ancestors who lived in the country in prehistoric and protohistoric times and have a shared history going back to over two thousand years. He argues that through a process of language replacement the north Indian Prakrit dialects spread among the vast majority of the people paving the way for the evolution of Sinhalese while Tamil became the dominant language in some parts of the island leading to the emergence of Sri Lankan Tamil. Buddhism, though at first common to both groups later became a religion associated with the Sinhalese. The rule of the Cola dynasty in the 11th century paved the way for the rise of Saivism among the Tamils. In the end Buddhism disappeared completely as a religion of the Sri Lankan Tamils and Saivism assumed dominance among them. The result was that religion in addition to language became a marker of ethnic identity. This research covers the period up to 1200 by which time the process of evolution had more or less stabilized and the chance of one absorbing the other eventually had receded, although assimilation of elements of one group into the other continued.
Download or read book The History of the Tamils and the Sinhalese of Sri Lanka written by G. K. Rajasuriar and published by Author-Publishers (AU). This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tamils of Sri Lanka written by Walter Schwarz and published by London : Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tamils and Ceylon written by C. S. Navaratnam and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Ceylon written by Henry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism written by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a succession of key stages since Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) became independent in 1948, its Tamil minority, historically concentrated in the north and east but with an important segment in Colombo, became alienated from the Sinhalese majority and, after peaceful opposition failed to secure its rights, resorted to an armed struggle. The Tamil Tigers (LTTE) today appear to hold the key to their people’s future. While they have suffered setbacks, including the loss of the Tamil capital, Jaffna, they remain a potent guerrilla force, able to strike with impunity at both military and civilian targets. The Tigers’ grip on the Tamil population seems secure, as does their overseas support and funding from Tamil exiles in Britain, Canada, and Australia. This book offers a concise history of the Sri Lankan Tamil nation, its culture, social make-up, and political evolution. In a final chapter, A. J. V. Chandrakanthan gives a first-hand account of life and attitudes inside the embattled Tamil areas today. A. Jeyaratnam Wilson teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of The Break-Up of Sri Lanka and S. J. V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism. A. J. V. Chandrakanthan teaches in the Department of Theology at Concordia University, Montreal.
Download or read book The Plantation Tamils of Ceylon written by Patrick Peebles and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistics.
Download or read book A Short History of Hinduism in Ceylon written by C. S. Navaratnam and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book S J V Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism 1947 1977 written by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S.J. Chelvanayakam was one of the most prominent leaders of the Ceylon Tamils before and after the end of colonial rule, and in the early days of their struggle for political and economic equality. The author, who knew Chelvanayakam intimately, analyzes in this work his career and his symbiotic relationship with the Ceylon Tamils, which led eventually to the emergence and reinforcing of a defensive Ceylon Tamil nationalism.
Download or read book The Early History of Ceylon and Its Relations with India and Other Foreign Countries written by G. C. Mendis and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tamils in India Ceylon and Malaya written by R. Visvanathan P.J.K. and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
