Land of the Tamils and their rule

Thought provoking framework

for discussion

Version 1

10-Nov-09 By E.Logeswaran, Researcher, e-mail: e_logeswaran@yahoo.co.uk 1

1. 200,000 to 50,000 BC: Evolution of "the Tamilian or Homo Dravida" Timelines of
2. 200,000 to 100,000 BC: Beginning of the Tamil language. Tamil Early
3. 50,000 BC: Kumari Kandam civilisation. history
4. 20,000 BC: A lost Tamil culture of the Easter Island which had an advanced civilisation.
5. 16,000 BC: Lemuria submerged. (Refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumari_Kandam).

Chile

6 6087 BC: Second Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king.

6. king
7. 3031 BC: A Chera prince in his wanderings in the Solomon Islands saw wild sugarcane and
started cultivation in Kumari Kandam. East of Papua
8. 1780 BC: The Third Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king. New Guinea
9. 7th century BC: Tolkappiyam (the earliest known extant Tamil grammar) .
10. Mathivanan claims his interpretation of history is validated by the discovery of the "Jaffna
seal", a seal bearing a Tamil-Brahmi inscription assigned by its excavators to the 3rd century BC
(but claimed
10-Nov-09 by Mathivanan to date toBy1600 BC). Researcher
E.Logeswaran, 2
10-Nov-09 Refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangam
By E.Logeswaran, Researcher 3
 Submerged Kumari Kandam (Tamil Nadu) has been substantiated by:
Silapathikaram, Manimegalai, Tholkappiyam, Purananuru, Kalithokai, Kurunthokai, Kamba
Ramayanam, Iraiyanar Akapporul, Thiruvachagam, Mahavamsa, Mahabharatha; Roman and
Greek maps of – Ptolemy, Pliny, Periplus; other geological proofs of Al-Biruni observations,
Sea level rise; geographical, geological, oceanography proofs

Land of the
Tamils

10-Nov-09 Refer: http://bharathgyan.com/kum.htm

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 Birth place of Tamil Language and cradle of Tamil Civilisation.

Refer: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13227973/The-Lost-Land-of-Lemuria-Fabulous-
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Geographies-Catastrophic-Histories
Tamil Country during the Sangam Age
River Palar
Mamallapuram
Chola
Kingdom River South Pennar
River Kaveri

Chera Uraiyur Kaverippumpattinam

Emblems of 3 Kingdom Capital)
Musiri
Tamil Kingdoms
River Vaigai
Chera Pandiya Madurai
Vanchi (Capital)
((Capital)
p ) g
Kingdom
River Thamiraparani
Thondi
(Port)

Korkai Pandiya
(Port) Kingdom
Pandiya
Kingdom
10-Nov-09 Refer: http://www.scribd.com/doc/18353654/Tamil-Nadu-6th-Standard-History
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 Before and after Christ

T il Land
Tamil L d India

Tamil Land

Tamils have been living on the

island long before 16,000 BC
(refer Sangam)

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 Details of the land mass
connecting Tamil Nadu
and Tamil Eelam and
water flowing
fl i over
30 km long
Part of Rameswaram Land mass
Tamil Nadu Sethusamudram
(Sea separating Tamil Nadu and Eelam)

Dhanushkodi
Talaimannar

10-Nov-09 By E.Logeswaran, Researcher Mannar 8

Ceylon was part of the land mass of Tamil Nadu. It
became an island about 7000 yyears ago
g when it
physically separated from Tamil Nadu
Satellite
TTamilil
map
Nadu

Tamils
continue
t live
to li on the
th
island after
7000 years the physical
ago
Tamil
separation from
Nadu the land mass of
Land
Tamil Nadu
mass Tamil
Nadu

Tamils are the indigenous people in Sri Lanka

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 Sinhalese says that they are the descendants of
Indian Prince (?) Vijaya who took refugee in the
island 2500 (?) years ago after expelled from India
Part of
Tamil Tamil
Nadu Nadu

Tamil king
Elara rule
in 204 BC

Vijaya Buddhism
took refuge introduced
Drifting
in 543 BC (?) in 236 BC (?)
Vijaya (?)

Historians consider that the Vijaya’s arrival in Sri Lanka to be merely a myth
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 Saivaites *

S i it *
Saivaites B ddhi **
Buddhists
Siva

Siva Buddha
People: Muslims ? Tamils Sinhalese

God: Allah
Siva Jesus B ddh
Buddha

Religion: Islam Saivaism Christianity Buddhism

Sinhala = Tamil + Pali + Sanskrit

Language (mother tongue): Tamil
(Emerged after 13th century)
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 Tamils and Sinhalese are Dravidians
1. Marriage
1
King Vijaya was married to a Tamil woman from Madurai

2 Similar
2. Si il Identity.
Id i 1995, Dr. R.Jayasekara , Human Genetics unit, Faculty Medicine,
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and his team collected blood
samples in Colombo and surrounding areas from 102 Sinhalese, 100
Tamils,
il 10303 Burghers,
h 100
00 Muslims
li and d 103
03 Malays
l who
h were healthy,
h lh
normal and unrelated individuals. Altogether 608 blood samples were
collected and transported by air to the department of Human
G
Genetics.
ti University
U i it off New
N C tl Upon
Castle U T
Tyne. I the
In th final
fi l analysis,
l i
the Sinhalese and the Tamil Population of Sri Lanka appear to be the
descendants of a single genetic group who had occupied this country
from prehistoric times.
times DNA of Tamil Nadu Tamils is matching the
Eelam Tamils and Sinhalese.

3. Signed treaties in Tamil

3
a. The king of Kotte, Bhuvanehabahu VII, signed the treaty with the
Portuguese in Tamil
b. One of the Kandiyan Chieftains, Ratwatta Disawa, the ancestor of
Srimao Bandaranayake, signed
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Long before 600 BC there were 7 Tamil
Temples which are shown below
Found 2591 B.C

Maviddapuram

Trincomalee
Mannar
Chilaw

Sivanoli Pada Malai

(Sacred mountain of Hindu Tamils)
Galle Tamil God Murukan in Kathirkamam

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 Tiruketeeswaram
Tiruketeeswaram is a pre-historic sacred kovil in Manthoddam situated in Mannar District about seven miles north of Mannar town. It is
famous according to legends as the kovil where Ketu Bhagavan worshipped Lord Eeswaram.
Eeswaram Hence this holy shrine acquired the name of
Tiruketeeswaram.

According to Dr. Paul E. Peiris, an erudite scholar and historian, “long before the arrival of Vijaya (6th century B.C.) there was in Lanka five
recognized ‘Eeswararns’ of Siva, which claimed and received adoration of all India. These were Tiruketheeswaram near Mahathitha,
Munneswaram, Thondeswaram, Tirukoneswaram and Naguleswaram.

The celebrated historian J.W. Bennet wrote (1843): “At Mantotte the antiquarian will find a field for research in the still extant remains of
remote antiquity, amongst which are the vestiges of an immense tank (Giant Tank) arid the ruins of a former Hindu City, built of birch. The
antiquity
q y of the Hindus,, byy whom,, I humblyy p presume,, the island was originally
g yppeopled,
p , and their civilization at the remotest pperiod of
history, are recognized by all the ancient Eastern Philosophers.”

Another well-known historian, Cassie Chetty, had this to say: “Manthoddam was a center of international trade. Greeks, Romans,
Phoenicians, Arabs, Ethiopians, Persians, Chinese, Japanese, Burmese and others vied with each other at various times to monopolise the
trade of North Ceylon.
Ceylon ”

B.J. Perera, a reputed historian, wrote: “Although Mahathitha (Mathoddam) is first mentioned in connection with the landing of Vijaya’s
second wife, a royal princess from the Pandyan Kingdom, there is no doubt that it was used as port by the Tamils long before the Aryan
settlement in Ceylon. The existence of the Temple Tiruketheeswaram, the origin of which is not covered by existing records, is an indication
of the antiquity of the port. Indeed Mahathitta is the only port in the Island which can be called a buried city. Mahathittha was a great port in
the early centuries of the Christian era. Next we have the references in the Sangam literature of the Tamils describing Mahathitta as a great
port.”

Hugh
g Neville,, another well-known researcher,, said in 1887 on the illustrious cityy of Mathoddam a follows: “A renowned shrine ggrew into
repute there dedicated to one Supreme God symbolized by a single stone, and in later times restored by Vijaya, a Saivaite after lying long in
ruins. The temple was dedicate as Tiru - Kethes - Waram.”

This kovil, dedicated to the worship of the Supreme God Siva, has been the most venerated temple for centuries. This Temple and the holy
waters of the Palavi Tank by its side are venerated in the sacred hymns of the two foremost Saiva saints Tirugnana Sampantar and Sundarar
who lived in the 7th and 8th centuries respectively.

This great
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temple was completely destroyed by the Portuguese
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in the 16thResearcher
century and the very stones of this Temple were used by15them to
build the fort at Mannar, the churches and also the Hammershield Fort at Kayts.
Priceless relics of an ancient Tamil civilisation, including two granite lions, buried under sand
for centuries, were unearthed on the beach in the town of Mahabalipuram, some 70kms south
of Madras by the tsunamis that crashed into southern India 26 December 2004. Photo AFP

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 Mahabalipuram, Tamil’s Submerged Temples

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 Chola Rule (848 AD – 1279 AD)

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Rajaraja Cholan
 Jaffna Kingdom existed for 403 years
Portuguese landed in Ceylon in 1505
and took 115 years to conquer the
Jaffna Kingdom.
Though the Jaffna Kingdom fell, the
areas to the south called Vanni did not
accept the rule of the Portuguese. It
did not p payy tribute to the Kandyan
y
Kingdom or to any other kingdom. It
functioned as an autonomous entity.

Although
lh h at different
diff times
i the
h
territory of Eelam came under foreign
rule, it never lost its Tamil Identity.
even its
it borders
b d remained
i d intact
i t t till
1833.
The Jaffna Kingdom existed with Nallur
as its capital from 1215 AD to 1619 AD.
The following are the names of the
Kings and their period of rule of Tamil
Eelam:-
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Reference: Winning Slow Victory in Sri Lanka
 Three Ceylonese Kingdoms

Kandy K tt
Kotte
Jaffna

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 1519 1799 1803
Tamil King Sangili Tamil King Pantara Vanniyan
Jaffna
Kingdom

Kandyan
Kingdom

Kotte
Kingdom

“Two different nations, from a very ancient period, have divided between them the
possession of the island; the Sinhalese inhabiting the interior in its southern and
western parts from the river Wallouwe to Chilaw, and the Malabars (Tamils) who
possess the Northern and Eastern districts. These two nations differ entirely in their
religion, language and manners.” – Sir High Cleghorn – British colonial secretary –
June 1799.
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 Map drawn during British Rule
1833 1897

2 Tamil Provinces 2 Tamil provinces

and
d 3 Sinhala
h l and
d 7 Sinhala
h l
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provinces By E.Logeswaran, Researcher provinces 22
 Tamil State
Under British Rule

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 Rule from 1500 to 2009 Separate
state

Tamil
Kingdom
2009
Full
Majority Sinhala Rule
Portugese Dutch British British Scale
Rule Tamil Rule War
Unitary
Non Built the De State
Sinhala
Si h l Violent Facto state
Kingdom Tamil of Tamil
Freedom Eelam
S
Struggle
l

1505 1656 1800 1833 1948 1977 2006

Merged Sri Lanka
the 2 became
kingdoms independent State within
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Refer: http://tamilnadumonuments.com/history.html
 Indigenous Tamils are the owners of Ceylon

1.. Tamil
a literary
te a y work,
o , music
us c and
a d dance
da ce have
a e already
a eady been
bee well
e developed
de e oped 16,000
6,000 BC
C

2. 7000 years ago Ceylon has been the land mass of Tamil Land in India

3. Long before 600 BC six Eeswaram Tamil Temples have been worshiped in Ceylon

4. DNA of Tamil Nadu Tamils is matching the Eelam Tamils and Sinhalese.

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 Group representation 1922 Solutions
proposed during
25% 25% 50% the last 30 years
Tamils Minotrities Sinhalese
Federations
of the British
Federation Federation
within with India & with India & Rule from 1918
Ceylon 1938 Eelam 1939 Ceylon 1940 to 1948
Rejected

Independent
Unitary Ceylon
Independent Separate Sinhala 1920 Territorial 1948
Eelam 1944 State 1944 Representation

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Forced on Tamils
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 Solutions proposed between 1948 & 2009
1957 Regional Council
1987 North and East Merged 1986 two Provincial Council 1985 District Council
Provincial Councils in North & Reconstituted without Executive
Eastern Province Power

1983 Provincial Level 1979 District

2003 Interim
Self-Governing Decentralisation Development
Administration Council
1965
District
Council

1970 Autonomous Tamil 1995 Devolution 1959, 1968,

State, Muslim State & 3 Package for all the 1976
Sinhala States provinces Separate
All the solutions were rejected or unilaterally abrogated State
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 Solutions

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 Countries with population less than 1,000,000 (1 million)

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 Countries with population less than ~ 100,000

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 Countries with population less than 10,000

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 Population and Area (Square Miles)

People
Speaking 7532
C
Country T il as Sinhalese
Tamil Si h l T l
Total
Mother
Tongue
Eelam, % 92 8 100 17800
Sri Lanka, % 16 84 100
Eelam + Sri Lanka, % 31 69 100
Eelam + Sri Lanka, No 6296366 13920037 20216403
25332

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 De Facto State of Tamil Eelam

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