posted March 02, 2001 11:56 AM            

Do you know the Last Kandian King who survived the Portugese, Olanthu, and ONLY defeated by the British was TAMIL?

I know your Mahawamsa CRACK won't accept this, BUT it was the FACT!!

So What is your POINT?

posted March 05, 2001 10:04 AM         

North province had two kingdoms, one was Jaffna Kingdom, other one was Vanni Kingdom.

Nobdy said that Eastern Province was under Jaffna Kingdom, but some part of Eastern province was under vanni Kingdom, some part was under Kandy Kingdom.
However, Mostly Tamils and Malabars(from west coast of South India) lived at East Province under Kandy Kingdom.
Last king Raja sinha of Kandy kingdom was from Malabars,but married the queen from royal family of Kandy Kingdom.

When TULF were formed,they included some part of Kandy province in their tamil Eelam map.

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posted March 06, 2001 03:13 PM         

Norway, Don't speak of thing you don't know. Read more about the Kandy Kingdom and about Sri Wickrema Rajasinghe.

It was customery for some Kandian rulers to marry brides from Indian Royal families. In the event the king and queen were unable to bare sons, for some reason, the next in line to the throne was the queen's brother.

-Henry,
I suggest you learn history before you shout about your colonization c__p.

posted March 13, 2001 03:25 PM         

The fact that the distribution of the races was not caused by post-independence ‘colonisation’ schemes is born out by studies such as "An Appraisal of the Concept of a Traditional Tamil Homeland in Sri Lanka" by Prof. G. H. Peiris. The study clearly shows that the Sinhala majority in much of the Eastern province dates back at least as far as 1921.

Perhaps the fact that the Eastern Province is a traditional Sinhala homeland can be most easily illustrated by examining the name of the capital city of the province, Trincomalee. At the time when it was an Aryan settlement, Trincomalee was called Gokarnatheertha. Later through several evolutions this became Gokanna and finally
Gona. The Tamils pronounce Gona as Kona. Thiru means sacred and malai means hill.
Essentially Thiru-kona-malai means "the sacred hill of Gona" (Vimalananda). The name
Trincomalee is simply a translation from the original Sinhalese.

If any ethnic group should therefore be accused of having engaged in colonizing
activity in the Eastern province, it is the Tamils. Chelvanayakam claiming that the
Sinhalese were “colonizing” Tamil areas is tantamount to white Americans complaining
that Red Indians were stealing their lands. In any event, when the first new settlements were established under the Gal Oya scheme, Senanayake made the first offer to the residents of the area who happened to be Tamils. Only when this offer was turned down were persons from other areas given the opportunity to come and settle there (Somasunderam, 1999). In 1957 the Minister of Lands even made arrangements
for 400 Tamil families to be settled in the Padaviya area (Vittachi). Further, in
examining the demographics of actual colonizing made by the state, it is clear that a large number of Tamils were also included (Gunesekera, S.L.).