Talk:History of Sri Lanka

message: Sri lanka is a a country which has a very rich history and a high civilization.Some of the facts of SriLanka in this page is not completely acceptable or is incomplete.There is clear evidence to show the high technological skills in the field of irrigation by early Aryans who migrated from North and West India who started their migration around the 3rd century B.C.
Sri lanka showed rapid development in agriculture and systems of administration which were much advanced than the European Nations of that time.
Yoda Ela,Parakrama Samudraya are some excellent creation of ancient srilankan Kings.It is still an amazement to the present generation of the high technological skills used by ancient srilanka.
But in this page nothing is mentioned about the early civilization of Sri Lanka which is considered more advanced when compared to the European history.Itis also evident that the European invasions became ahindrance to the development of the Srilankan Nation.
I request this page to be edited by good Sri Lankan intellectuals who have experience in this field.
                                                             Request by Fahad Rismy
Good suggestion Rismy but we must be careful not to get into this compare and contrast chest beatings and loose track of the real objective facts, our credibility lies there.
If you can present your sources, we will include your information. Without a source to cite, this cannot be added.
207.35.67.130 (talk) 14:37, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request of improvement in quality by YOUNG PATRIOTS 

message: Dear jonasaurus,SriLanks was never a part of India.It always remained as a separate country.But there were cultural invasions and that takes places between any neighbors.But there were some wars fought between two countries.And finally India itself was never a one whole country before its Independence,and moreover South of Deccan the Kings were either Feudatories or Independent.And Sri Lanka's nearest Neighbors,the Ramnad Kingdom and the Madurai Kingdom were Independent sovereigns till the Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb.
I Hope some of your doubts have been cleared.
Qiki
wow i understood the srilankan history!seems like windows of srilankan history creator working hard to improve the older versions like mahawamsa 1960 the first edition now out more reliable version for who believe born to a lion,mahawamsa 7.even  mahawamsa is not a sinhala word sanskrit!is our Sinhalese letters unique?every one answer NO! kanada Telugu mix like modern remix not have any uniqueness.our community dnt know the rest of the world dats the major problem,im to srilankan dnt misunderstand me i knew dis via dishtv z Canada,z Telugu channels watch it ,we dnt have any connection with north India
stop developing the extremists we are 2600 light years back from the modern world!!i went India in there net transfer speed 2mps our country 0.2mps dats y dnt care about the Tamils there are goose they will go to hell by r=there self or make there life lose,we have to care about the our country develops within the next year our country should change more building also i want net trans speed 6mps.!!!!!!! dnt write like a fool {we build that this} now these day even road engineered by Chinese Eng,srilankas biggest idole building by the Tamils idol builder shame!!!daty forget those fake stories also there many logical holes therefore stop the mal JUST DEVELOP OUR LANKAN MADHA oops madha to nt our word man tamil language accepted as one the oldest language we cant say tamils got words from us still we using many words .im sl leftist nt support unp jvp even pa only respect the our national security forces who lost there life for dis ridiculous war god bless srilanka im a eng student frm moratuwa hopefully ill support to dis country by my talent.      —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.43.52.130 (talk) 11:03, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Doubts cleared

message: this article and a number of other articles that focus on aspects of Sri Lankan/Ceylon history need to be cleaned up. There is a current dispute as to whether Sri Lanka has ever been part of India, as this article states. Somebody with an amount of experience on Sri Lankan history is needed to help with this article. Sorry I couldn't help. --jonasaurus 06:53, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Requests for Improvement

message: The leftist Sinhalese Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna drew worldwide attention when it launched an insurrection against the Bandaranaike government in April 1971. Although the insurgents were young, poorly armed, and inadequately trained, they succeeded in seizing and holding major areas in Southern and Central provinces before they were defeated by the security forces. Their attempt to seize power created a major crisis for the government and forced a fundamental reassessment of the nation's security needs.
The paavak movement was started in the late 1960s by Rohana Wijeweera, the son of a businessman from the seaport of Tangalla, Hambantota District. An excellent student, Wijeweera had been forced to give up his studies for financial reasons. Through friends of his father, a member of the Ceylon Communist Party, Wijeweera successfully applied for a scholarship in the Soviet Union, and in 1960 at the age of seventeen, he went to Moscow to study medicine at Patrice Lumumba University. While in Moscow, he studied Marxist ideology but, because of his openly expressed sympathies for Maoist revolutionary theory, he was denied a visa to return to the Soviet Union after a brief trip home in 1964. Over the next several years, he participated in the pro-Beijing branch of the Ceylon Communist Party, but he was increasingly at odds with party leaders and impatient with its lack of revolutionary purpose. His success in working with youth groups and his popularity as a public speaker led him to organize his own movement in 1967. Initially identified simply as the New Left, this group drew on students and unemployed youths from rural areas, most of them in the sixteen-to-twenty-five-age- group. Many of these new recruits were members of lower castes (Karava and Durava) who felt that their economic interests had been neglected by the nation's leftist coalitions. The standard program of indoctrination, the so-called Five Lectures, included discussions of Indian imperialism, the growing economic crisis, the failure of the island's communist and socialist parties, and the need for a sudden, violent seizure of power.
Between 1967 and 1970, the group expanded rapidly, gaining control of the student socialist movement at a number of major university campuses and winning recruits and sympathizers within the armed forces. Some of these latter supporters actually provided sketches of police stations, airports, and military facilities that were important to the initial success of the revolt. In order to draw the newer members more tightly into the organization and to prepare them for a coming confrontation, Wijeweera opened "education camps" in several remote areas along the south and southwestern coasts. These camps provided training in Marxism-Leninism and in basic military skills.
While developing secret cells and regional commands, Wijeweera's group also began to take a more public role during the elections of 1970. His cadres campaigned openly for the United Front of Sirimavo R. D. Bandaranaike, but at the same time they distributed posters and pamphlets promising violent rebellion if Bandaranaike did not address the interests of the proletariat. In a manifesto issued during this period, the group used the name Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna for the first time. Because of the subversive tone of these publications, the United National Party government had Wijeweera detained during the elections, but the victorious Bandaranaike ordered his release in July 1970. In the politically tolerant atmosphere of the next few months, as the new government attempted to win over a wide variety of unorthodox leftist groups, the JVP intensified both the public campaign and the private preparations for a revolt. Although their group was relatively small, the members hoped to immobilize the government by selective kidnapping and sudden, simultaneous strikes against the security forces throughout the island. Some of the necessary weapons had been bought with funds supplied by the members. For the most part, however, they relied on raids against police stations and army camps to secure weapons, and they manufactured their own bombs.
The discovery of several JVP bomb factories gave the government its first evidence that the group's public threats were to be taken seriously. In March 1971, after an accidental explosion in one of these factories, the police found fifty-eight bombs in a hut in Nelundeniya, Kegalla District. Shortly afterward, Wijeweera was arrested and sent to Jaffna Prison, where he remained throughout the revolt. In response to his arrest and the growing pressure of police investigations, other JVP leaders decided to act immediately, and they agreed to begin the uprising at 11:00 P.M. on April 5.
The planning for the countrywide insurrection was hasty and poorly coordinated; some of the district leaders were not informed until the morning of the uprising. After one premature attack, security forces throughout the island were put on alert and a number of JVP leaders went into hiding without bothering to inform their subordinates of the changed circumstances. In spite of this confusion, rebel groups armed with shotguns, bombs, and Molotov cocktails launched simultaneous attacks against seventy- four police stations around the island and cut power to major urban areas. The attacks were most successful in the south. By April 10, the rebels had taken control of Matara District and the city of Ambalangoda in Galle District and came close to capturing the remaining areas of Southern Province.
The new government was ill prepared for the crisis that confronted it. Although there had been some warning that an attack was imminent, Bandaranaike was caught off guard by the scale of the uprising and was forced to call on India to provide basic security functions. Indian frigates patrolled the coast and Indian troops guarded Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayaka while Indian Air Force helicopters assisted the counteroffensive. Sri Lanka's all-volunteer army had no combat experience since World War II and no training in counterinsurgency warfare. Although the police were able to defend some areas unassisted, in many places the government deployed personnel from all three services in a ground force capacity. Royal Ceylon Air Force helicopters delivered relief supplies to beleaguered police stations while combined service patrols drove the insurgents out of urban areas and into the countryside.
After two weeks of fighting, the government regained control of all but a few remote areas. In both human and political terms, the cost of the victory was high: an estimated 10,000 insurgents- -many of them in their teens--died in the conflict, and the army was widely perceived to have used excessive force. In order to win over an alienated population and to prevent a prolonged conflict, Bandaranaike offered amnesties in May and June 1971, and only the top leaders were actually imprisoned. Wijeweera, who was already in detention at the time of the uprising, was given a twenty-year sentence and the JVP was proscribed.
Under the six years of emergency rule that followed the uprising, the JVP remained dormant. After the victory of the United National Party in the 1977 elections, however, the new government attempted to broaden its mandate with a period of political tolerance. Wijeweera was freed, the ban was lifted, and the JVP entered the arena of legal political competition. As a candidate in the 1982 presidential elections, Wijeweera finished fourth, with more than 250,000 votes (as compared with Jayewardene's 3.2 million). During this period, and especially as the Tamil conflict to the north became more intense, there was a marked shift in the ideology and goals of the JVP. Initially Marxist in orientation, and claiming to represent the oppressed of both the Tamil and Sinhalese communities, the group emerged increasingly as a Sinhalese nationalist organization opposing any compromise with the Tamil insurgency. This new orientation became explicit in the anti-Tamil riots of July 1983. Because of its role in inciting violence, the JVP was once again banned and its leadership went underground.
The group's activities intensified in the second half of 1987 in the wake of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord. The prospect of Tamil autonomy in the north together with the presence of Indian troops stirred up a wave of Sinhalese nationalism and a sudden growth of antigovernment violence. During 1987 a new group emerged that was an offshoot of the JVP--the Patriotic Liberation Organization (Deshapreni Janatha Viyaparaya--DJV). The DJV claimed responsibility for the August 1987 assassination attempts against the president and prime minister. In addition, the group launched a campaign of intimidation against the ruling party, killing more than seventy members of Parliament between July and November.
Along with the group's renewed violence came a renewed fear of infiltration of the armed forces. Following the successful raid of the Pallekelle army camp in May 1987, the government conducted an investigation that resulted in the discharge of thirty-seven soldiers suspected of having links with the JVP. In order to prevent a repetition of the 1971 uprising, the government considered lifting the ban on the JVP in early 1988 and permitting the group to participate again in the political arena. With Wijeweera still underground, however, the JVP had no clear leadership at the time, and it was uncertain whether it had the cohesion to mount any coordinated offensive, either military or political, against the government.
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I do not see any reason to place this as required for grammar or spelling correction. The structure is sound. Sources are required though.207.35.67.130 (talk) 15:30, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: 1971 Uprising

message: I have reverted edits that appear to violate the copyrights of this site  and this one . If these are not copyright violations, please state this and revert. Will => talk 11:59, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The deleted text appears to be from the Library of Congress Country Studies, which is public domain .  It can be reincorporated into the text if proper attribution is made. Tyronen 17:23, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverted Copyvios 

message: The History of Sri Lanka is usually taken to begin in the 6th century BCE, when the Sinhalese people migrated into the island from India.
Sri Lankan history began along time before 6th century BCE.. i shall change it once i have sometime and paint a accurate picture.
Also, the first homo sapiens appear about 195000 years ago, the claim that "Sri Lanka was settled probably by 300,000 BP and possibly by 500,000 BP or earlier" looks bogus.
reference:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html#moderns
===RE:===
It's a very pro-Sinhala, Aryanist POV. Archaeological excavations have proven human settlement in Sri Lanka long before the Aryans. I'm going to remove it from the top of the page. It's certainly not something we want to start of Sri Lanka History with.
Morquendi 18:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: It's a very pro-Sinhala, Aryanist POV. Archaeological excavations have proven human settlement in Sri Lanka long before the Aryans. I'm going to remove it from the top of the page. It's certainly not something we want to start of Sri Lanka History with.
Morquendi 18:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: RE:

message: its looks bogus because it did not found by British,American or European. i believe things only found by them !
Eeriyaka (talk) 09:55, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: white mans theory

message: The early history looks very dodgy to me. It seems a bit "new age" and claims dates not really comparable with the rest of known human history. And isn't Lemuria a theosophist/mystical construction rather than a real place? I'm afraid I don't really know enough about early Sri Lanka to fix this, but if I can find a good book or two on the subject I may have a go at some point. Anyone else know better than me? Raygungothic 12:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The section is definitely in need of attention.  It was hard enough just to get the mismatched ref syntax parsed correctly. 72.244.206.157 11:06, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Early history

message: Thanks for your helpful comments - indeed, I should have used the preview button!
All references to websites are those maintained by Universities, university academics or those of a similar standing. The reason for using CAPITAL letters for names in the section "time line" was a last resort to save space, and satisfy the need to demarcate one king from another. So a reader doesn't have to go through the whole thing to find a specific name. If you try to use Lower case bold, or anything else the kilobytes add up and the article cuts off. That means this has to be made into two articles (e.g., Early History and History since European Invasions). I have attempted to shorten the text. 
The Vijaya legend stuff was too long but I did not put it, and I have moved it to Vijaya. Sorry for the typos. I don't know how to activate a spell checker inside the editing process.
The issue of Dravidian settlements is a hot topic of great interest to many readers, and I have merely brought in the work of the foremost expert (Karthigesu Indrapala) who is a Tamil - so it is hardly a Sinhala POV. It is the snadrad position of the established academic community. Most current discussions about the Mahavamsa, the early history etc, and recent academic publications range on this issue (thus run a citation search in the academic journals- not google to avoid internet stuff - or even just confined to JSTOR and you will see what I mean; of course you can run a Google search separately). Anyway hte space given to Dravidian stuff is less than to kambodian stuff, so the criticism has no merit.
The historical names are given e.g, mahathitha (Mannar), Madhupathota (Illupaikadavi) etc., where the historical names, found in the chronicles, ancient inscriptions, are given together with a current name. This is a standard in historical writing, like giving  Constantinopal(Alexandria). In the case of Madhupathota, the Elu name "Meepathota" is also used (even now), but we can't list every allonym.       
              
Thanks again.
Bodhi dhana 21:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reply from Bodhi

message: Pre and Proto History
I quote:
:These first inhabitants, i.e, prior to 10th centure BC, may have been Sumarian, Phoenician and Etruscan sea-faring settleres, as attested by the presence of place names in Sri Lanka containing Elu words which may be related to such languages(see below).
Having a statement like that in our supposedly serious Wikpedia is very sad. The careless editing put aside, this section seems to be original research by some "scholars" of questionable expertise at best.
*Why prior to 10th century, when the presence of Aryans is attested from the 5th century only? What happened in between?
Reply: This is roughly the begining of the early iron age in this region. There are no "people"
called "aryan", but certain linguistic families. But where did, say, Sanskrit come from? Bodhi dhana 03:43, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Krankman, if you find such obvious nonsense, you should either silently remove it, or if you don't have the time, slap a  template on the article. This is just run-of-the-mill inferior material that tends to accrete on Wikipedia, nothing that sitting down for 20 minutes couldn't fix. dab (𒁳) 16:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: State of this article - an example

message: The use of the subtitle "war on terrorism" to describe the current conflict represents the Sinhalese POV.  What is wrong with using the original, NPOV subtitle "Civil war"?
:just fix it, there is a reason this article has a huge "please clean me up" boilerplate.  dab (𒁳) 16:33, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  War on terrorism 

message: Sri Lanka's history is written in Mahawansa by Sinhala Buddhist Monks.
Many people who write here do not have much idea about Mahawansa itself. Mahawansa saya Elara is a Tamil King who was the founder of Anuradapura kingdom. He is not an invader as it is written here. Mahawansa says 700 people headed by Vijeya, who came to Sri Lanka from North India are the Sinhalese root. When Vijeya came to Sri Lanka he met Kuveni. There is enough and firm chances that Kuveni was from Tamil Dynasty. Iyakka and Naga were influenced by Tamils and Sinhalese. And mixed up by the time.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.195.60.154 (talk) 22:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mahawamsa 

message: What is not a fact? Elara was obviously Tamil of South Indian origin, It says that on the Elara article:
::"Elara is described in the Mahavamsa as being 'A Damila (means Tamil) of noble descent...from the Chola-country (South India)'; various other sources name him as the son of a Chola queen and brother of the king Ellagan. Little is known of his early life. Around 205 BCE Elara mounted an invasion of the kingdom of Rajarata based in Anuradhapura in northern Sri Lanka and defeated the forces of king Asela, establishing himself as sole ruler for the northern part of Sri Lanka."
He was a Tamil king of Sri Lanka but he was Indian Tamil not Sri Lankan Tamil so therefore has to be described as South Indian or would be misleading, and  being Indian Tamil he is an invader to Sri Lanka who Killed the current king and took the throne.
In future start a discussion if you are not sure about something and don't accuse someone with vandalism and threaten them with being blocked.--Blackknight12 (talk) 08:09, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elara 

message: Dear Sinhala Neighbor!
Why you think bad about your Neighbor the Tamils ? Why you ignore the History of the Tamils in Sri Lanka fully?  Mostly your Theses are based on the arya Mahavamsa. What about the arya Ramayana Theory. Actually the Aryan says, that they are the deva (the saints) and their counterpart the dravidians was the Asuras (the daemon). Right? So the King of Lanka, Ravana from Ravanapura (now Ruhuna) was an Asura! He was an Dravidian! Ramayana was dated between 700 -500 BC and Mahavamsa 500-300 BC. So guys, for once switch your common sense on. Which Chronicle is elder?  --Tamilstyle (talk) 10:08, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racism 

message: I'm deleting the double entry of the Kingdom of Ruhuna under Ancient Sri Lanka. It already appears in Middle Age Sri Lanka.207.35.67.130 (talk) 15:17, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting Kingdom of Ruhuna 

message: Hi
During the copyedit some things came to light which may need attention:
;Prehistoric era of Sri Lanka
*"if not earlier (Possehl 1990; Deraniyagala 1992:734). The earliest manifestation of this in Sri Lanka is radiocarbon-dated to c. 1000-800 BC at Anuradhapura and Aligala shelter in Sigiriya (Deraniyagala 1992:709-29; Karunaratne and Adikari 1994:58; Mogren 1994:39; with the Anuradhapura dating corroborated by Coningham 1999)" - the bracketed details should really be turned into refs.
*"James Emerson Tennent identified Sri Lanka with Galle." - no significance is established as to what the importance is of this identification, does it relate to the biblical Tarshish for example?
*The refs, which are simple html link conversions such as http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/prehistory.htm, should be changed into proper refs (cite web, cite book etc.).
;Pali Chronicles and the arrival of Vijaya
*"The Sinhalese recognize the Vijayan Indo-Aryan culture and Buddhism (already in existence prior to the arrival of Vijaya), as distinct from other groups in neighboring south India." - Buddhism is a religion not an ethnic group. This should lalso probably not be in this section as it is a modern reference and more about demographics.
;Anuradhapura Kingdom
*"sapling via Jambukola (Sambiliturei)" - not clear what Jambukola or Sambiliturei are.
*"Dutugemunu is depicted as a Sinhala "Asoka"." - What are a Sinhala  and an Asoka?
*"is a dagaba of pyramid-like" - what is a dagaba?
;Medieval Sri Lanka
*Headers without text - the sections linked to the "main" articles (Kingdom of Dambadeniya ->Kingdom of Kandy) should have a short summary of the main articles (as the first two do -Kingdom of Ruhuna and Kingdom of Polonnaruwa)
;British rule
*"live in line rooms, not very different from cattle sheds." - needs a little more explanation? Cattle sheds can be many different things and the relationship between the two is fairly vague.
;Independence movement
*"Ceylon National Congress (CNC) was founded to agitate for greater autonomy" - when?
;Independence
*"adroit political acumen of D. S. Senanayake" - Which one is this? Dudley or the one previously referred to as simply "Senanayke"?
;Republic (1970 to 2009)
*"Under Bandaranaike the country became a republic," - when? "a republic on the (date)"
;1971 Uprising
*This section is longer than its "main article" - the material should be moved to the linked article 1971 JVP Insurrection and a summary left here.
*This section also appears to be a direct copy of the page from  and so I have not copy-edited it.
;New constitution of 1978
*This section also appears to be a direct copy of the page from  and so I have not copy-edited it.
;General notes
*The text should really avoid sentences of only four or five words.
*There is a mix of British and American English, in particular the dates are all dd-mm-yy format vs some mixes of sections using mainly British English and others mainly American English - probably due to differnet editors who worked on the sections. One or the other should be chosen and, as the British ruled for a long time and are often referenced as well as being central in establishing Sri Lankan independance, I would suggest that British English is adopted.
*A large amount of html links - these should have been turned into refs.
Chaosdruid (talk) 16:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyedit May 2011

message: Vankalaian and Cossde have now been revert warring over several days, I am getting tired of looking at that in my watchlist. I have now reverted back to a version before the dispute started, and protected the page. This does not mean that this version is endorsed, but it does mean that you all need to start discussing here on the talkpage how to include the sourced material. That was admin-talk, here comes my editorial opinion: I don't know much about this topic but I can see that the material is not neutrally worded and would need to be rewritten to be included. it is highly evaluative and editorializing in its style. It has sources though and they look  so it seems likely that the material can be included when it is sufficiently neutrally worded, supposing that the principles of due weight and npov are considered. Those were my five editorial cents, feel free to listen to them or not. Admin-talk: When the editors involved in the dispute have come to a consensus I will happily unprotect the page so that you can insert the text that you have decided on. Happy editing·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 02:36, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Protected

message: Who arrived first? sinhales or tamils? Sinhales arrived from Bengalia or Maharashtra?--Kaiyr (talk) 08:19, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arrive 

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message: in the colonial history section it says many lowland conversions were 'forced'to convert but I think this is inaccurate and an exaggeration. The portugueese tried vigourously to convert but they never forced people.Ilikerabbits! (talk) 10:44, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
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