She possesses tropical beaches, ancient monuments, rain forests, gorgeous waterfalls and many places to delight any person. S ri Lanka is mainly an agricultural country. She is self sufficient in her staple diet rice which is the largest cultivation. Tea, Coconut and Rubber are the main economic agricultural crops.
Tea brings beauty as well as the foreign exchange to the country.
The Indo-Aryans assimilated the indigenous inhabitants who are called Yakkhas in the historical chronicles. From the 19th Century however, Tamil minority leaders have put forward various claims to political rights unsupported by fact or principle. From the early 1970s the Tamil political leadership has sought to enforce even more extreme claims with the use of violence. From 1949 the Tamils have been claiming the right to establish a Tamil state in over one third of the island. A Muslim theocratic party, the only such in a non-Muslim country, was formed in 1985 with the objective of establishing a Muslim political region in the island.