Tamils and Chetti and Singala Origins

Thu, Feb 20, 2025 

Tamils and Chetti and Singala Origins

I can remember Rukmanie Devi and Edi Jayamanne. She came to Ceylon and my mother wanted to see her live (not performance). It was a stampede and I never went see a film until the Western Films started coming to Ceylon.

Nada is my batch mate and is a Forensic Guy who would not utter anything, without checking historical facts

Only highlighting and capitalization in this piece is my editing.

Kasinathan Nadesan
  
To my knowledge they came from Chettinadu in Madurai district, Tamils and Hindus. 

Also we had Telungus including last king of Kandy. 

But these Telungus came from Tamil Nadu, spoke Tamil and Hindus. 

Telungus, ie Nayakas  later became all the well known Singala Nayakas, bandara nayakas and mahanayakas who called themselves as high caste singalese. 

They accordingly changed their religions and languages for convenience and worst some of them became utter racist, against Tamils. 

Many still don't bother to learn the true history of Ceylon, thinking its people are very authentic. Sinhale is one such nonsense. 

If not for Buddha and King Ashoka and the Portuguease, the story would have been entirely different.