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The Indian Tamils (or Hill Country Tamils) are descendants of bonded labourers sent from Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka in the 19th century to work on tea plantations. [110] [111] Most Sri Lankan Tamils live in the Northern and Eastern provinces and in the capital Colombo, and most Indian Tamils live in the central highlands. [109]
6 Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka. 7 Colombo Chetties. 8 See also. Toggle the table of contents. List of Sri Lankans by ethnicity. Add languages. ... List of Sri Lankans ...
Air Vice Marshal Ravi Arunthavanathan - former Deputy Chief of Staff, Sri Lanka Air Force and current Additional Secretary, Ministry of Defence; Major General Y. Balaretnarajah, Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya, Uttama Seva Padakkama, National Defence College, India, Sri Lanka Armoured Corps - Chief of Staff, Sri Lanka Army (1992-1992)
This includes all Sri Lankan Tamil people that can also be found in the subcategories. This category and its subcategories are restricted to people verified to be Sri Lankan citizens of fully Tamil heritage, not emigrants or expatriates, according to reliable published sources.
The Bharatha people are descendants of Tamil speaking Paravar of Southern India who migrated to Sri Lanka under Portuguese rule during that time. [21] Several hundreds of converted Christian Bharathas were brought from the Indian mainland to the western shores of Sri Lanka by the Portuguese to wrest control on the pearl trade. [22] [23]
Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism is the conviction of the Sri Lankan Tamil people, a minority ethnic group in the South Asian island country of Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon), that they have the right to constitute an independent or autonomous political community. This idea has not always existed.
Distribution of Sri Lankan Tamil people in Sri Lanka by DS Division according 2012 census including the Negambo and Puttalam area In the Gampaha district ethnic Tamils have historically inhabited the coastal belt, as in the neighboring Puttalam district, which until the first two decades of the twentieth century had a substantial ethnic Tamil ...
Bharatha People (Sinhala: භාරත, romanized: Bhārata, Tamil: பரதர், romanized: Paratar) also known as Bharatakula and Paravar, is an ethnicity in the island of Sri Lanka. [2] Earlier considered a caste of the Sri Lankan Tamils , they were classified as separate ethnic group in the 2001 census. [ 3 ]