
	Where results make sense

Topic: Sinhalese people

In the News (Tue 1 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Sri Lanka - MSN Encarta
		Malayan peoples, whose ancestors came from what is now Indonesia in the 1600s, constitute a small proportion of Sri Lanka’s Muslim population.
		Sinhala, also known as Sinhalese, is an Indo-Aryan language that originated from a mixture of Sanskrit dialects.
		Large family reunions are held during traditional festivities such as the Sinhalese and Tamil New Year, which is celebrated in April according to the astrological calendar.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568352_3/Sri_Lanka.html (1282 words)

	[No title]
		Sinhalese is the official language of Sri Lanka, a factor which became a cause of political strife following independence in 1948.
		The Sinhalese divide themselves into two groups, the "Up Country people" or Kandyan and the "Low Country people." The Kandyan inhabit the highlands of the south-central region and constitute 38 percent of the Sinhalese and 25.8 percent of the national population (as of 1971).
		The Low Country people were subject to foreign rule since 1505, starting with the arrival of the Portuguese, and followed by the Dutch in 1656 and the British in 1796, until Sri Lanka's independence in 1948.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7869 (1395 words)

	Sinhalese people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to local legend, the Sinhalese are descended from the exiled Prince Vijaya and his party of several hundred who arrived on the island between 543 to 483 BCE after having been made to leave their native regions of Orissa, Bengal and elsewhere in India.
		The vast majority of the Sinhalese live in Sri Lanka (mostly in the south and west of the island), but there are significant expatriate communities in Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, where Sri Lankans are often employed as guest workers.
		Most of the Sinhalese are Buddhists 93%, and are considered the only ethnic group in South Asia who overwhelmingly adhere to the Theravada sect of Buddhism, though it should be noted that many Sinhalese Buddhists also venerate Hindu deities as well as indigenous gods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinhalese_people (1366 words)

	South Asian Journal
		The Sinhalese are a majority with a minority complex and this, coupled with the notion that Buddhism in its pristine form is preserved only in Sri Lanka, has nurtured a mindset among them that any privilege or near equal status granted to any other culture would seriously jeopardise the position of their language and religion.
		Sinhalese is a language with the majority of the words in Pali and also containing Sanskrit and Tamil words in its vocabulary.
		Many sections of the Sinhalese people, the rabid nationalists, the Ayurvedic (native) physicians, the village school teachers, a substantial section of the peasants and many of the lower middle classes, saw Sinhala Only as liberation from the control and domination of the English educated sections.
	www.southasianmedia.net /Magazine/Journal/tamil_question.htm (5069 words)

	Sinhalese
		The Sinhalese speak Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language brought to Sri Lanka by the north Indian peoples that settled the island in the fifth century.
		Although many of the Sinhalese live in cities and towns, where their living conditions differ little from those of other city populations in southern Asia, the Sinhalese are by and large a rural people.
		Sinhalese people in the cities and towns are engaged in government work, the professions, business, trade, and the service industries.
	www.everyculture.com /wc/Rwanda-to-Syria/Sinhalese.html (2763 words)

	A Last Chance For Peace in Sri Lanka by Rohini Hensman, December, 2004 \| www.sacw.net
		Sinhalese, Muslim, and above all Tamil refugees in camps in 1990, especially in the North and East, were subjected to deprivation, fear, and all too often violence.
		While members of the government visited the tsunami-affected people of the North and East despite security risks (President Chandrika Kumaratunga had lost an eye and almost lost her life in an LTTE assassination attempt), Prabakaran was conspicuous by his absence.
		And people whose lives depend on LTTE handouts will not be able to protest against the forcible conscription of their children, which Human Rights Watch and UNICEF have reported is taking place in the LTTE-controlled refugee camps--a despicable example of thugs preying on tsunami-stricken people.
	www.sacw.net /peace/rohini27012005.html (2323 words)

	The Most Unpatriotic Nation on Earth - By Ranjith Soysa
		The Sinhalese members of this social class, made maximum use of the helplessness and the insecurity of the Sinhalese Buddhist people in Sri Lanka.
		The country and its people who are sick of listening to their meaningless lies and boasting, meanwhile, have gone nowhere.
		Sinhalese Buddhists are not racists, If they were, Sri Lanka, would never have ended up like this, and all you minorities will not be able to scavenge on the system.
	www.spur.asn.au /most_unpatriotic_nation_on_earth.htm (5087 words)

	Sri Lanka People and Ethinic Diversity
		The first one is the largest minority group of the country-that is Sinhalese people, accounting for 74% of its total population, densely populated in the southwest of the island.
		The Sinhalese are not the indigenous people of Sri Lanka.
		It was the Sinhalese who are conscious of their majority community on the island and who have so profound faith in Buddhist religion that they regarded themselves as the "protector of Buddhism".
	www.adventurelanka.com /Sri_Lanka/sri_lanka_people.htm (2976 words)

	Discover Sri Lanka by Ari Withanage - The People
		Although Kuveni had betrayed her own people and had given birth to two of Vijaya's children, she was banished by the ruler, who then arranged a marriage with a princess from Madurai in southeastern India.
		Although a revered figure in Sinhalese annals, Parakramabahu is believed to have greatly strained the royal treasury and contributed to the fall of the Sinhalese kingdom.
		The Sinhalese withdrawal from the north is sometimes attributed to the cumulative effect of invasions from southern India (a rationale that has been exploited against the Tamils in modern Sinhalese politics).
	members.fortunecity.com /lankapage/people.htm (10419 words)

	Travel Guide to Sri Lanka: People by Sri-Lanka-Tour.com
		The Sinhalese are not the indigenous people of Sri Lanka.
		According to the legend, the Sinhalese were descendants of Prince Vijaya and his fellows migrating from the northern India into the island in the 6th century B.C, bringing with them the agricultural economy and language.
		It was the Sinhalese who are conscious of their majority community on the island and who have so profound faith in Buddhist religion that they regarded themselves as the "protector of Buddhism".
	www.sri-lanka-tour.com /travel-guide/people.htm (2988 words)

	Nation, State, and Self Determination in Sri Lanka
		During this period of development and evolution of the Sinhalese people, there were continual invasions from South India that were prompted by the rewards of loot and bounty.
		Furthermore, if they are in a majority and the homeland people are in a minority, it is the homeland people alone that have the right to "their demands that may range from territorial autonomy to secession and independent statehood" (Esman, 1994), in short, the right to self-determination.
		There is no question that the legitimate claims of the upcountry Sinhalese people to the territory of the plantation districts must prevail over those of any others, because these lands were the "homeland" of these Sinhalese people until the British colonial period, during which time these lands were confiscated.
	www.hometown.aol.com /mahnel/lbima7.htm (3640 words)

	SINHALA COLONISATION
		That the Princes of Bengal and Kalingam and their people came to this island and married Pandian girls is recorded in the island's history.
		65% of the sea-coast is the ancestral possession of the Tamil people.
		However, the Sinhalese fishermen slowly drove the Tamils away and took control of Musali, Chilapaththurai, and Thalaimannar in the west and Nayaru and Kalmunai which is a long stretch of sea coast land in the east.
	members.tripod.com /kanaga_sritharan/colonisation.htm (3110 words)

	[No title]
		Although Kuveni had betrayed her own people and had given birth to two of Vijaya's children, she was banished by the ruler, who then arranged a marriage with a princess from Madurai in southeastern India.
		Although a revered figure in Sinhalese annals, Parakramabahu is believed to have greatly strained the royal treasury and contributed to the fall of the Sinhalese kingdom.
		The Sinhalese withdrawal from the north is sometimes attributed to the cumulative effect of invasions from southern India (a rationale that has been exploited against the Tamils in modern Sinhalese politics).
	members.lycos.co.uk /withanage/people.htm (10413 words)

	Sri Lanka: Travel and Exports Information - Sri Lanka News
		The Sinhalese people form the largest ethnic group in the nation, composing approximately 74% of the total population.
		Although Sinhalese legends characterise the Veddahs as partly descended from evil spirits, the Veddahs are related to South Indian tribes such as the Vedas of Kerala and even thought to be related to the aborigines of Australia.
		According to their tradition, the Sinhalese people trace their origins back to the union of a lion, or a "sinha", and a North Indian princess, whose descendants became the bloodline of Sinhalese Royalty.
	www.srilanka.com /aboutsl.php (2178 words)

	navbar.gif
		he struggle of the Tamil people, now more than forty years old, for their democratic rights, their dignity as a people and for the preservation of their identity, has been deemed a legitimate one by the world at large, including a large number of Sinhalese people.
		Many mature persons killed by their own people during the course of the struggle were elders, political activists, citizens' committee members and educationists, who even in a limited capacity provided the community with crucial leadership.
		The people are caught up in a crude political game, where the state's philosophy is to get the military upper hand before seeking a political solution.
	www.uthr.org /Reports/Report4/chapter10.htm (861 words)

	The Sunday Times News and Comments
		The Sinhalese people have proved to the world that they are not racists.
		For example in case of arrests such measures would mean that the Army issue an arrest receipt to the families, and the ICRC continues to maintain a dialogue with the security forces on this issue.
		The majority of the people are bound to approve these proposals which would bring to an end the confrontational politics, they presage.
	lakdiva.org /suntimes/990620/news3.html (3250 words)

	Early Sri Lankan History
		The people who comprise about seventy four percent of the population of Sri Lanka even today, after the island has been subject to various historical changes during a period over two thousand years, call themselves and their language by that name, which has been languilised as Sinhalese.
		In its basic characteristic, Sinhalese differs from Tamil, the language of the south Indian people who are the nearest neighbors of Sri Lanka and who during the last thousand years, have displaced the earlier Sinhalese population of some areas in the Northern and Eastern parts of the island.
		The fact that a large territory inhabited by peoples speaking non Aryan languages in North India clearly indicates that the ancestors of the present day Sinhalese migrated to this island from 'Aryavarta' the adobe of Aryanised-Indians as was known in ancient vedic and Sanskrit literature.
	www.sinhaya.com /begining.htm (2272 words)

	The Sinhalese
		The island of Sri Lanka, so called after the ancestors of the Sinhalese people, is natures generous gift to its people who have made it famous in history as "The Pear of the Orient".
		It is also the cradle of culture and civilization of the Sinhalese although the nation has been inhabited by Tamil, Muslim (traders of Arab origin), and the Colonial rulers of Portugal, Holland and England during its speckled history.
		It must be clearly understood that the Sinhalese were not the indigenous aborigininal people of the island.
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/sinhalese.html (1921 words)

	THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA - TamilCanadian
		The state aided colonisation of Sinhalese people in Tamil areas promoted to annex Tamil homelands and further reduce Tamil representation in the parliament.
		(The Sinhalese Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1970 to 1977 was Mrs Srimavo Bandaranaike the present Prime Minister and the mother of the present President Chandrika Kumaratunge).
		The armed struggle by the LTTE on behalf of the Tamil people arose as a rebellion against the tyranny of the Sinhalese state and its brutal repression of Tamil people.
	www.tamilcanadian.com /page.php?cat=92&id=548 (1359 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		The first one is the largest minority group of the country-that is Sinhalese people, accounting for 74% of its total population, densely populated in the southwest of the island.
		The kindred (pavula, in Sinhala) of an individual often constitute the people with whom it is possible to eat or marry.
		Because of these customs, local Sinhalese society is highly fragmented, not only at the level of ethnic group or caste, but also at the level of the kindred.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/srilanka/srilanka_people.cfm (2881 words)

	What is Sinhalese?
		The Sinhalese invented the sluicegate a 1000 years before the rest of the world, and are considered to have built the most sophisticated irrigation systems in the world according to British excavation engineers.
		At one time, the Sinhalese ships were the biggest at Shanghai harbor (Chinese records), and history records a time when the representative of the Sinhalese sat on the right hand side seat of Claudius Caesar.
		A Sinhalese aristocrat did so at the cost of his life as recent as 1815, while fleeing from the British who were at his heels.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~rsamaran/Sinhalese.html (993 words)

	TamilBrisbane.com :: Tamil Speaking Community Portal - Brisbane - Queensland - Australia - SRI LANKANS PROTEST ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		People, carrying bill-boards “Shame”, “Live and let Live”, ”Stop Crimes against Humanity” followed the hearse carrying the body of Raviraj across the City to a public meeting in Viharamahadevi Park, Colombo, Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims stood shoulder to shoulder in an unprecedented show of ethnic solidarity.
		The leadership of the Sinhalese has gone from bad to worse, from corruption to rampant corruption which is widespread, from favouritism to nepotism, incompetence to gross incompetence, ethnic tolerance to ethnic hatred, nation building to the destruction of a nation, from those with a poor vision of the future to those with no vision.
		The Sinhalese people, the most uninformed people in Sri Lanka, must be informed that there are solutions to the ethnic problem which will markedly improve the quality of their lives, and also ensure that bodies of their rural youths do not return in body bags.
	www.tamilbrisbane.com /content/view/335/1 (5749 words)

	The Sinhalese
		The island of Sri Lanka, so called after the ancestors of the Sinhalese people, is natures generous gift to its people who have made it famous in history as "The Pear of the Orient".
		It is also the cradle of culture and civilization of the Sinhalese although the nation has been inhabited by Tamil, Muslim (traders of Arab origin), and the Colonial rulers of Portugal, Holland and England during its speckled history.
		Many poor Sinhalese and Tamils were converted to Catholicism and the other sects of Christianity in return for money, housing and education that the Missionaries freely distributed as a means to attract them.
	www.rootsweb.ancestry.com /~lkawgw/sinhalese.html (1921 words)

	LankaWeb news
		He felt that in a democracy all people were entitled to differences of opinions and as such should be allowed to exist.
		The Sinhalese have always being willing to share what they have and live in harmony with all the people be they Tamil, Muslims, Burghers, or Malays.
		In turn the minorities will have to accept that the Sinhalese are the majority race and learn to live with them or else depart to whatever their homeland might be.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items/160500-1.html (2851 words)

	Sri Lanka's Week of Shame - July 1983 Massacre: Long Term Consequences
		As I have said, in a disgraceful attempt to implicate the Sinhalese people in this outrage, their President, in his broadcast, claimed that the violence was the “natural reaction” of the Sinhalese people to the killing of the 13 soldiers.
		I have been called a Sinhalese traitor for saying what has to be said and for supporting the right of the Tamil people to live with equality, dignity and safety in the country of their birth.
		The only ‘apology’ that the Sinhalese people can make to the Tamils is to pressure the Sinhalese leaders that the Tamil-speaking people have a right to develop the area they live in and have the right to live as they want in the area they have lived in for centuries.
	www.tamilnation.org /forum/brian/060723blackjuly.htm (6461 words)

	Our People Around the World
		The Tamils are the indigenous people of Ceylon.
		The early political history of the people of Ceylon, in the centuries before the advent of the European powers, is largely a chronicle of the rise and fall of individual kingdoms.
		The Tamil people, considered as `outsiders', were to be subjugated and assimilated within the confines of unitary Sinhaala Buddhist state.
	www.eelamweb.com /appeal.html (3895 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)