If they were hard-working and industrious lot Tamilnadu would have been the commercial, industrious and rice bowl of India. Tamils should have held almost all the higher post in Indian society.
Time for you to bone up before commenting.
Tamilnadu is one of the leading States in many fields.
And they do hold high posts too. Check it out,
Rice cultivation requires a good monsoon and water. Water comes from States where the the river starts and they consume most of it.
I gave you facts that show the Ceylonese Tamils were taken to Malaya because they were industrious and diligent. I also indicated what a Chinese (who are also very hardworking and industrious) leader, the Singapore Mentor Minister has to say about Ceylonese Tamils.
And what you bring up as a rebut? Your opinion without any considered thought or on facts.
And also if Tamils were so much hard-working and industrious lot Jaffna and the Wanni regions should have look like Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa regions dotted with temples, reservoirs and stuff. Which we know is not.
What we should consider here is the special opportunity provided for the Tamils. Despite Sinhalese were the majority.
Do you think British would have liked to flirt with Sinhalese who wanted to ousted British? So they turned to the Tamil immigrants of Jaffna who had no nationalistic feeling because they were immigrants.
How is it special opportunities being provided for the Tamils by the British?
You had the opportunity and you did not seize it. The Tamils did and rose by their sheer diligence and determination.
I love that. Singalese wanting to oust British. Tell that to the Marines.
Quit deluding yourself.
Those Tamils were brought to Malaya as coolies. Which means as near slaves. If your theory is correct Black Americans are the most hard working citizens in whole US and the white people should be just lazy idiots.
Again it is hogwash swill that you are trotting out.
This might help:
The Ceylonese (mostly Tamils with smaller numbers of Sinhalese and Burghers) started arriving in Malaya with the advent of the 19th Century. They were sought after by the British to assist in the administration of the British Government of Malaya.
After the Pangkor Treaty of 1874, the British embarked upon the construction of roads, railways, schools, hospitals and government offices in the Malay Peninsula, to develop the country and to increase its revenue and the Ceylonese were brought to survey the railways and to build and man them, to be apothecaries in the hospitals, to be technical assistants to qualified engineers and to staff the clerical services on which an expanding government was bound increasingly to depend.
An Introduction to the Malaysian Ceylonese Community
and the Malaysian Ceylonese Congress
Penang Story Project
Sri Lankans in Malaysia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The peculiar thing is that those hard working and better than Sinhalese Tamils never even raised a finger against British even though British occupied their so called homeland? Sinhalese did for many times and got beaten so bad. Can you elaborate this?
Possibly because they thought they would get more justice under them and could foresee what has happened to them under the Singalese majority as is of now.