North-East must be recognized as Tamil homeland




2016-11-04

Q How do you analyze the root causes of the ethnic problem?

We are a very old society. From the very beginning, there were racial differences of so called Aryans and Dravidians. With the passage of time, while the Sinhala people developed their identity, people in the North and the East were also growing towards a national identification. It happened with the expansion of Capitalism. Actually, the national question arises due to market and the capitalist economy. Earlier, there was not much of an exchange. People accepted whoever ruled. Their own villages functioned separately. Their cultures were dispersed. Various types of cultures could exist under the ruler identified as Sinhala or Tamil. When we say Dutu Gemunu as the Sinhala king, there would have been villages with different cultures such as Tamil-speaking or otherwise. They combined the Kingdom State. When the market economy started, the integration of people together through the exchange, there came about the development of a homogeneous society. Caste barriers broke down. People began to get identified by their language as large entities. The language develops with the expansion of the market economy. In Sri Lanka too, Sinhala people’s unification appeared very recently, may be about 100 years ago. Earlier, they would say they were people of Govigama caste, Salagama caste, etc. That tendency disappeared. 

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