A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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India donates 16,000 mostly Tamil books to Jaffna library
ndia donated 16,000 books, mostly in the Tamil language, to the Jaffna
library last week, during the Indian High Commissioner, Taranjit Singh
Sandhu visit to the North-East.
The books, ranging in topics from culture, politics, philosophy and
science, were collated by a Thanjavur based organisation, the Karunthai
Tamil Sangam, the Times of India reported.
The collection includes photocopies of some of the original work of the
Arumugam Navalar which was destroyed when the library was set alight
by state security forces and Sinhala mobs in 1981.
Over 95,000 ancient Tamil palm leaves (olai), manuscripts, parchments
and irreplaceable books, magazines and newspapers were destroyed in the
burning.
The 1981 burning happened under the watch of a UNP government, during a
period of electioneering for District Development Council elections and
notably while two notoriously Sinhala chauvinist cabinet ministers -
Cyril Mathew and Gamini Dissanayake - were in Jaffna.