BRIEF HISTORY OF TAMILS
Posted on May 2nd, 2024
L.K.N. PERERA ( LL.B Cey) Attorney at law,
L.K.N. PERERA ( LL.B Cey) Attorney at law, Labour Consultant, Ex-Senior Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court, Ex Judicial Officer,Ex-President. Lanka Academic Association , Ex Director Waste Management Authority, Co -Chairma- Seruvila Mangala Maha Chaityawardena Samitiya . Advisory Committee Member of All Ceylon Buddhist Congress. Co-Founder Kataragama Wallimathagama Ama Sisila, Mahameuna Asapuwa
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16.04.2024
Karu Jayasuriya Esq,
Former Speaker,
Meerigama.
I am heavily perturbed by your recent statement that you are going to construct a Hindu Kovil at the Kurundi Vihara site which was earlier administered by late Venerable Sumedankara Maha Thero of Seruvila Temple during his life time. I believe that as a Buddhist leader you should be ashamed to make such an irresponsible statement.
I am raising this question whether you are going to do the same, if these Malabar coolies demand a Kovil at Seruvila Temple Premises.
Please note that Koneswaram Temple at Trincomalee was constructed after demolishing three Buddhist Temples.
I am attaching a 3 page document which speaks of the brief history of Malabar coolies now named as Ceylon Tamils.
Please note that birth rate of Muslims are so high that they have exceeded 30% of today’s population. Surely a Muslim would become the President of this country in the year 1937 .
I would like to know what steps you have taken to prevent this situation.
L.K.N.Perera
cc
- Hon Chief Justice
- Hon Mahanayakas
- Hon President
- Hon Prime Minister
- President All Ceylon Buddhist Congress
BRIEF HISTORY OF TAMILS IN SRI LANKA
- Tamils in Sri Lanka formerly called Malabars are similar to Rohingias in Minemar. They are foreigners.
- When Burma ( now Mienmar ) became independent, the new government chased them out from its soil. Even today the Mienmar Government is chasing them out. However Sinhalese leaders including Sir D.S.Senanayke the first Prime Minister of Ceylon tolerated the presence of these Malabars . Our leaders failed to nip in the bud and the Sinhalese are still suffering not due to any fault of them but due to fault of their leaders.
3) Tamils have less than 350 years history in Sri Lanka. They were earlier known as Malabars. In the year 1901, Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam the first Ceylonese Registrar General changed their name as Ceylon Tamils. Reason for this change was very clear. The term ‘Malabar’ gave the impression that they were foreigners in Sri Lankan soil.
4) Who is Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam. He is said to be a grand son of a toilet
cleaner of a Dutch Officer in Jaffna Fort during Dutch period. Sub serving the Dutch and British his family rose up to aristocratic level similar to Bandanayake family.
- These Malabars were brought to Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) by Dutch and British rulers as coolies and slaves for tobacco cultivation and toddy tapping in Jaffna Peninsula.
- Balthies a Dutch Calvinist Priest who lived in Jaffna in the year 1650 to 1665 says that Dutch brought 10,000 Malabar slaves and coolies from Tanjor, a South Indian City.
- However Dutch did not recognize them as natives of Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon.
- Even the early British administration did not recognize these Malabars as natives of Sri Lanka.
This is how they were identified by Captain Robert Percival who was a member of the British Team that took over the island from Dutch Authorities in the year 1796.
( An Account of the Island of Ceylon 1803”)
There is also a race of Malabars formed here somewhat differing in their appearance from those on the continent. These different tribes of foreign settlers greatly exceeded in number of the native Ceylonese in the District of Jaffna.”
Here the interpretation of the words ‘ greatly exceeded’ is important. If Percival has used the word ‘exceeded’ only, we have to presume that foreign Malabar population was just over 50% of Sinhalese population in Jaffna. As he has used the words ‘greatly exceeded” we have to presume that more than 75% or 80% in Jaffna population was Malabar coolies by the time Jaffna was taken over by British from Dutch authorities..
This is crystal clear proof that present Tamil population in Jaffna are descendants of these Malabar coolies.
See Page 59 the book ‘Eelam Exposed’ for further details.
- Even the Government Agent of Jaffna ( Ackland Dyke ) in the year 1829 confirmed the above identification and further said that they were only migrant labourers in the following words.
On 29th January 1830 Jaffna Collector gave evidence before the Colebrook Commission and said
‘In Jaffna Peninsula there is no permanent population, permanent settlements and permanent cultivations. Malabars who are temporarily resident are engaged in Tobacco cultivation, fisheries and trade”.
See my book Eelam Exposed – Page 58 for further details
- Thesawalamai Law is not an ancient law as claimed by these Tamil coolies.
Late Dr. Suriya Gunasekara has found that it was just a reproduction of a German Tribal law named Jus Mandas” , a tribal law operative in Holland at that time. Otherwise how can there be references to Christian marriages to pagans. As we all know Christianity came to Sri Lanka with the arrival of Portugsuese only ( AD 1505 )
- Queros a Portuguese historian says that Sankili 11 forcibly took over the Jaffna Crown from ‘Levke Bandara’ a three year old infant.Levek Bandar’s custodian was Weerasundara Mudali. Sankili 11 was not a Tamil but a priced hailed from Great Parakamabahu clan.
- Balthies says that beyond Pacchirapalli of Jafffna Peninsula , it was the kingdom of Rajasinghe 11. Pachchirapalli was the Dutch Boundary. This is clear proof that these Malabar ( Tamil ) coolies have encroached Mulative , Kilinochhi and Vavunia Districts during the British period. In such a situation how could these coolies claim these districts as their motherland and there existed a Kovil at Kurundi from time immemorial.
- Our Chritain Historians namely Dr.G.C.Mendis and Professor M.B.D.Silva of Peradeniya University have deliberately hidden the Jaffna true history. Educated Sinhalese leaders such as Sir D.B.Jayatilleke and Professor Malalasekera have acted as deaf and dumb people . Tragedy is that they did not expose the myth of Eelam and Sinhalese have lost their inborn rights in the North and East.
As explained in my book the descendants of these Malabar coolies and slaves have distorted the true history of this country and created a bogus history and misled the whole world . Even former Indian Prime Minister Rajive Ghandi too was deceived by them. If he knew the bogus nature of their claim, surely he would not have signed 1987 Ragive JR Pact.
I went through all the statements of Sir Ponnambalam Arunahalam and S.J.V.Chelvanayakam, the two pioneers of Eelam struggle. It appears that their main aim is to form a Global Tamil Empire. Please note that in such a situation there will be no Sri Lanka or India. Therefore Indian leaders have to be extremely cautious in handling this Tamil issue in Sri Lanka.
L.K.N.Perera.
CC 1) Hon Chief Justice
2) President Ranil Wickramasinghe.
2) Canadian Hig Commissioner.
3) British High Commissioner
4) Ambassador USA.