The rightful owners of Hindu Nationalism are India's fascist Hindutva forces e.g RSS,BJP. In Tamilnadu and Eelam it is Tamil nationalism, based on language and ethnicity.
In India - Tamil nationalism confronts Indian ultra nationalism and militant Hindu nationalism of RSS-BJP combo -
In Sri Lanka - Tamil nationalism fights Sinhala Buddhist Aryan nationalism.
You are trying to derail the thread by creating a confusion to
serve your Sinhala- Buddhist vested interest. Through out the island's 1000 ++ history Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Saivites have fought wars due to the diverging religiousbelief systems. The animosity between
Tamil Saivites and Sinhala Buddhists will never cease overnight. .
Source :
Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka. New Delhi, India.: Sage Publications, 2009.
The concessions from the “Sinhala only” language policy in 1956 to the pro-Sinhala ethnic standardization education policies in 1972, and from the religious policy establishing state patronage of Buddhism in the 1972 Constitution to land policy which, as early as 1948, began state colonization of the Tamil land,
all contributed to the growth of Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka. It is worth noting that the Tamils, who were victims of the Sinhala violence, mobilized politically without any violence under moderate parties such as the Federal Party (FP). However, Sinhalese chauvinism neglected the Tamil moderates. More tragically, the Tamils’ peaceful protests were met with Sinhalese ruling class’ violent responses. The aggressive Sinhala response to the moderate demands of Tamil nationalism encouraged some Tamils to seek violent alternatives to win justice and peace. This helps us to understand the socio-political conditions behind the birth of Tamil violent movements, particularly the LTTE in the 1979s (pp.34-37).
Tamil nationalism, then and now
The concept of “Tamil nationalism” was initiated at the end of the 19th century mainly to protect the separate identity of the Tamil language. When a false impression was created that the pan Indian culture was Sanskrit, a section of educated Tamils asserted the point that Tamil culture was distinct from Sanskrit culture and demanded its independent recognition. This was followed by the non-Brahmin movement of the non-Brahmin upper castes (who identified Brahmins with Sanskrit) against Brahmin monopoly in education and employment in the first three decades of the 20th century and by E.V. Ramasamy Periyar’s Self-Respect Movement since 1925 and the Dravidian movement thereafter.