Talk:Sri Lanka Tamils (Indian origin)
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[edit] Rename?
- This article describes Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka; should the article be renamed as Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamils of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Tamil people, etc? Then have Indian Tamil redirected to Tamil people?--Confuzion 18:06, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
- Agreed I have cread a dissamb. page called Sri Lanka Tamils RaveenS 13:51, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Hmm... I'm not sure what I think about this move. The Hill-Country Tamils are a pretty distinctive group, who are not the same as - for example - the professional class of Tamils of recent Indian origin in Colombo. I think the Hill-Country Tamils at the very least should have an article of their own, as they did until the move, which focuses on their special culture and history. -- Arvind 21:13, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
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- I am glad someone is watching these articles, what I am concerned is that somehow the term Sri Lankan is corned by one group of Tamils versus others. Like User:Confuzion says all Tamils of Sri Lanka are are Sri Lanka Tamils, one claiming to be native and other self identifying as Indian origin (not Citizen) but neverthless proud to be Sri Lankans.
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- How do we reconsile these differences. Both are Sri Lankan Tamils. About the professional class of Indian Tamils (along with Indian Telugus, Marathis....)in Colombo of recent years, they are not different than any expatriate Indian community in any country such as Dubai, Singapore (where thre are 3 distinct Tamil comunities apart from these expatriates). This current revision of the article is based on an extensive original research by V. Radhakrishnan, a Sri lankan of Indian Tamil origin. He self identifies the community as Tamils of Indian origin. We non Sri Lankan Tamils of Indian origin might want to call them Upcountry Tamils, Indian Tamils.... but what do they want to be identified as ? See discussion on Vedda page as to the current title of this page for similar arguments.
- RaveenS 20:57, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
- Well, if we're going to look at how they self-identify, let's keep in mind that their party is the "Upcountry People's Front". And in Tamil, Malaiyakam tamilar is by far the most common name (which is why I placed the article under "Hill country tamils").
- Also, the professional Colombo Tamils of Indian origin I was talking about are not quite the same as the Singapore and Dubai Tamils - there was some movement to Colombo and other parts of Sri Lanka, particularly from southern TN, in the colonial period, and it's their descendants I'm thinking of. They, too, are "of Indian origin", but are culturally quite different from the Malaiyakam Tamils. -- Arvind 10:18, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
- Couple of things, the official census categories are Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Origin Tamils. There is anecdotal evidence that more and more Indian origin Tamils are marking themselves as Sri Lankan Tamils. Second they are proud of their Indian origin, third they destroyed their Indian passports as a protest. How do we classify these people? Anyway, writing this article made me see how their social structure is very similar to the so called Sri Lankan Tamil structure. Another fact is that they have fought hard to be Sri Lankans as opposed to most Sri Lankan Tamils, who fight not to be Sri Lankans:))). I wish we get some of them to comment here. Also look at Indian Malaysian, Indo-Fijian, Indo-Trinidadians….RaveenS 12:25, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
- Census categories shouldn't be a guide - the Indian census uses "Scheduled Castes", but the main wiki article uses Dalits as it rightly should. Otherwise I don't really disagree with your points. As I see it, the issue is what people who identify as Malaiyakam Tamils (as opposed to those who've tried to assimilate into the Ceylon Tamil or Sinhalese communities) call themselves. That, if anything, is what the article on them should be under. -- Arvind 14:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
- Couple of things, the official census categories are Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Origin Tamils. There is anecdotal evidence that more and more Indian origin Tamils are marking themselves as Sri Lankan Tamils. Second they are proud of their Indian origin, third they destroyed their Indian passports as a protest. How do we classify these people? Anyway, writing this article made me see how their social structure is very similar to the so called Sri Lankan Tamil structure. Another fact is that they have fought hard to be Sri Lankans as opposed to most Sri Lankan Tamils, who fight not to be Sri Lankans:))). I wish we get some of them to comment here. Also look at Indian Malaysian, Indo-Fijian, Indo-Trinidadians….RaveenS 12:25, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Prominent Hill Country Tamils
I think the list in the page is far from complete. May have to add some Academicals like prof. Mookaiyaha etc. Trengarasu 06:17, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
