Origins of Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils

[Suryavanshi]

Obviously, Sinhalese do too. Sinhalese have never denounced their links with India in the past. Sinhalese are not like Tamils who were recent migrants with stronger attachments to their kith and kin in South India. Sinhalese are very ancient race that Indians should acknowledge with due respect.

Your argument on India being a continues civilization is full of errors. One is that South India only do not represent the concept of India. It has mostly formed out of North India people and their ideologies. As we know North India has not remained the same continuously. Modern North Indian mindset and attitude is strongly influenced by Persian/Mughal cultures. It's not even the original vedic when you look at it more closely.

Cholas have been living in Sri Lanka way before Sinhalese people immigrated.

 

[HeinzGud]

Cholas have been living in Sri Lanka way before Sinhalese people immigrated.

Oh really? How do you know?

 

[HeinzGud]

Your assumption does not make much sense. The Vellalar were the dominant caste during the Chola period and this is the main reason why they were appointed as officials in southern India and Sri Lanka by the Chola rulers.
The Jaffna Kingdom was also mentioned by several travelers like Arabs and Portuguese. In fact one of the earliest foreign description of the Jaffna Kingdom was made in the 14th century by the Arab traveler Ibn Batuta. He described the kingdom as a powerful state which controlled northern Sri Lanka.

The Vellalar were also appointed by the British as officials in northern Sri Lanka because they were the officials of northern Sri Lanka before the arrival of the British. Why would the British appoint plantation workers as officials.
The policy of the British was always to appoint high caste people as officials. This was also the case in India. Because lower caste poeple did not have the experience and knowledge to establish a proper administration.

Vellars are the lower caste people aren't they? They are not Brahmins right?

Indeed Batuta mentions about Jaffna Kingdom in the 14th century. This is exactly my point. There is no mention about a seperate Tamil country in the Northern Sri Lanka let alone in the East before 14th century. Not even Cholas mention anything about that. The Jaffna Kingdom came into existence after the defeat of the Sinhalese monarchs in the late 13th century by the Kalinga adventurer "Magha".

Well, for your lower caste remark. In Sri Lanka, most of the Sinhalese people who served under the Brirish admisnistration came from lower castes there were almost a lower caste Sinhalese political leader in 1915s.

 

[Hijibiji]

It seems that my precious posts on Prince Vijay Singha are lost again!
So here i go again, Sinhalese people are long distant cousins of Bengali people.
And here are the sources!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Vijaya

"Prince Vijaya (Sinhala: විජය කුමරු) was the traditional first Sinhalese king of Sri Lanka, mentioned in the Pali chronicles, including Mahavamsa. According to these chronicles, he is the first recorded King of Sri Lanka. His reign is traditionally dated to 543–505 BCE. According to the legends, he and several hundred of his followers came to Lanka after being expelled from an Indian kingdom"

Of course Vijay Singha was from Ancient Bengal. He had come to Srilanka 200 years before Alexnder came to India and Chandragupta Mayurya got an empire in India. Just some perspective.

Here genetic studies on Sinhalese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Sinhalese

Tamils are distant in-laws of Bengali people of course. If someone looks at the map of Akhanda Bharat, he will realize that eastern indians are an ethinicity that has influence from North India(UP is closest to east India), Darjeeling/Sikkim/Tibet/NE of India (from here comes the mongoloid influence) and south India (AP is nearest to eastern India).

 

[HeinzGud]

It seems that my precious posts on Prince Vijay Singha are lost again!
So here i go again, Sinhalese people are long distant cousins of Bengali people.
And here are the sources!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Vijaya

"Prince Vijaya (Sinhala: විජය කුමරු) was the traditional first Sinhalese king of Sri Lanka, mentioned in the Pali chronicles, including Mahavamsa. According to these chronicles, he is the first recorded King of Sri Lanka. His reign is traditionally dated to 543–505 BCE. According to the legends, he and several hundred of his followers came to Lanka after being expelled from an Indian kingdom"

Of course Vijay Singha was from Ancient Bengal. He had come to Srilanka 200 years before Alexnder came to India and Chandragupta Mayurya got an empire in India. Just some perspective.

Here genetic studies on Sinhalese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Sinhalese

Tamils are distant in-laws of Bengali people of course. If someone looks at the map of Akhanda Bharat, he will realize that eastern indians are an ethinicity that has influence from North India(UP is closest to east India), Darjeeling/Sikkim/Tibet/NE of India (from here comes the mongoloid influence) and south India (AP is nearest to eastern India).

So what does that make Bengalis and Sinhalese? Bosom buddies? Man come on.

 

[Hijibiji]

So what does that make Bengalis and Sinhalese? Bosom buddies? Man come on.

What men! Come on men! Reading Comprehension issue men! "Distant Cousin" does NOT mean "Bosom Buddy" men!

 

[HeinzGud]

What men! Come on men! Reading Comprehension issue men! "Distant Cousin" does NOT mean "Bosom Buddy" men!

So in that sense we are distant cousins of Tamils, Keralites, Gujjus, Biharis, Portuguese and so on...

 

[Hijibiji]

So in that sense we are distant cousins of Tamils, Keralites, Gujjus, Biharis, Portuguese and so on...

That's the whole point men! And you forgot Kalinga (current Orissa) and current AP.
You are very diverse people men!

 

[fire starter]

According to the 5th century epic poem Mahavamsa and the Dipavamsa, a 3rd–5th century treatise written in Pali by Buddhist monks of the Anuradhapura Maha Viharaya in Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese descend from the Indo Aryan settlers who came to the island in 543 BCE from Sinhapura, in India, led by Prince Vijaya.

 

[HeinzGud]

According to the 5th century epic poem Mahavamsa and the Dipavamsa, a 3rd–5th century treatise written in Pali by Buddhist monks of the Anuradhapura Maha Viharaya in Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese descend from the Indo Aryan settlers who came to the island in 543 BCE from Sinhapura, in India, led by Prince Vijaya.
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However, the chronicle is not entirely true regarding this matter. Sinhalese are a diverse group of people just like Amecians in the United States where many genealogies are mixed to create an ethnicity whose gene pool is mostly consist of DNA from Eastern Indian seaboard