Saradiel
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as a mix bag Sri Lankan you are excuse for being dumb, and I am in no mood to teach dummies Sinhala history.
So me tell you a story , once upon a time, a gang of thugs were banished from Bangladesh to the Island of Lanka. Lanka was then inhabited by a highly civilised Dravidian Hindu Tamils. The Chief thug married the Dravidian native Queen after usurping her kingdom he kicked her out to marry another Tamil princess from another country under the Pandya rule.
Gananath Obeysekera, an outstanding Sinhalese anthropologist has this to say:
"The Sinhalese identity nowadays is predicted on the view that since they speak an Indo European language, they are of North Indian origin whereas the Dravidian speaking Tamils are from the South. The historical reality however is totally different. Except perhaps for the oldest stratum of settlers prior to 200 B.C., almost all subsequent settlers in Sri Lanka came from South India, mostly from Tamil Nadu, Orissa and Kerala and quickly became Sinhalised. In fact, some of the most vociferous anti Tamil castes among the Sinhalese were post fifteenth century migrants from South India".
Sinhala is an ancient nation. We accepted and absorbed any immigrants that came to the country at that time and still we do. Sinhala people have bengali roots and tamil roots. No one doubts that. The one who claim Sinhalese are north indian are the eelamists.
The fact is how much they scream the eelamists in SL cant show anything of any value as evidence to their so called tamil kingdom. Lets ditch history, look at the picture in a logical way.
1. Had there was a successful tamil kingdom in SL they surely must have coorperation with TN. In such a case how come a small number of people from North India who came in a boat conquer the great kingdom? That is against rationality.
2. If Sinhalese came later and invaded Tamils how come sinhala people live in the south of SL while tamils live in North? The pattern of invasion would suggest otherwise. The reason Sinhala people dominate the south while tamils live in North is because sinhalese were pushed into the island interior due to invasions.
3. The logistical support in TN would have stopped any north indian settlers dominating the island. Imagine a north indian today go to Tamil Nadu and make it north indian character.
4. Jaffna is the most difficult part in SL to defend. That was the first that will hold onto the hands of enemy as sinhalese, tamils, portugese, dutch learnt with time. So the fact that Tamils hold Jaffna raises questions.
Historically,
1. The reality is there is NO evidence to show strong Hindu culture in SL prior to buddhism. Some hindu practices might have been there, but largely animistic religious practices were prevalent.
2. Sinhala people have written records of histor thousand of years old. The dutch archives, stone inscriptions, history books will show that. Fa hien was a non SL person who lived in SL at that time. Still he hasnt mentioned a strong tamil existance in the island at that time. The tamils who lived in Jaffna was pointed out as pirates.
3. Howmuch eelamists find fault with sinhala people's history when it comes to evidences of history they have none. There isnt a single tamil literature book composed in SL until 18th century. while the sinhala alphebet, sinhala literature works, tradition and everything developed in SL (with indian input).
4. The place names in SL north has sanskrit origins.
what has happened?
The island was inhabited by indigenous people for millenias. from ancient times there have been constant immigration, invasions from different parts of the world (especially india). With time these people formed their own nation and their own identity. That is who sinhala people are. That is why sinhala people have genetic relaionship with almost all parts of india and various other parts in the world.
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