{"id":97123,"date":"2020-01-01T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T06:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97123"},"modified":"2019-12-31T16:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T23:16:39","slug":"subjects-not-rulers-reply-to-vigneswaran-bashing-mahawamsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/01\/subjects-not-rulers-reply-to-vigneswaran-bashing-mahawamsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Subjects Not Rulers: Reply to Vigneswaran Bashing Mahawamsa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChief Minister of the Northern Province is at it again \u2013 \nMahawamsa bashing. Lengthy replies have been written to him by others. Having \nread the comments and replies, I\u2019m compelled to make these short and sharp \npoints to him and his unfortunate followers. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.       \nIf Sri Lankan (Ceylon) Tamils were an \nestablished ethnic group in the island, why did they start to appear in the \nnational census only from 1911? There was no such ethnic group in 1881, 1891 and \n1901 censuses. That too was because the person in charge of the census was a \nTamil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.       \nWhy there is not a single Tamil \ninscription in Sri Lanka attributed to locals? The few Tamil inscriptions found \nin the island containing Tamil Nadu language were done by Cholas, Pandyans or \nthe Chinese. All outsiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.       \nWhy no Tamil history book or literature \nbook was done in Sri Lanka in ancient times? Everything was done in South India. \nThe 18th<\/sup> century Tamil book containing myths and glimpses of \nhistorical events was written by a South India brought to the island by the \nDutch. Therefore, that too was not done by a local but by an \noutsider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.       \nIf Tamils had such an illustrious history \n(anywhere in the world, let alone Sri Lanka), why do they live under the rule of \nHindi, Gujarati, Sinhala, Malay, etc. native speakers? Why can\u2019t Tamils rule \nthemselves in a nation anywhere in the whole wide world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.       \nIf Tamils had such an illustrious history \n(anywhere in the world, let alone Sri Lanka), don\u2019t they have any shame to live \nunder the rule of non-Tamils in every country they live?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are factual matters that \nVignesrawan and others of his coterie always fail to apprehend. Tamils are \nentitled to equal individual rights in Sri Lanka. Nothing less and nothing more. \nHe can make fun of Mahawamsa and other dozen Sinhala history books, but they can \nnever have their own nation. Accepting and respecting others\u2019 history and \nnations is the first step in gaining a nation of one\u2019s own. Unfortunately, \nTamils are misled by some of their politicians away from this \nreality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara Chief Minister of the Northern Province is at it again \u2013 Mahawamsa bashing. Lengthy replies have been written to him by others. Having read the comments and replies, I\u2019m compelled to make these short and sharp points to him and his unfortunate followers. 1.       If Sri Lankan (Ceylon) Tamils were an established ethnic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}