Talk:Durava

message: This entire article is written in what seems like a Tamil nationalist point of view and is not neutral.
The entire section on low country caste to include Salagama, Karawe, and Durave caste seems to have been written / edited by Tamil nationalists with vested interests.  There is no credible (other than myth and pseudo history in the Mahavamsa) evidence to suggest that the entire Sinhalese race is either Aryan or Dravidian.  It is possibly a combination of both.  Unless genetic research is carried out, the debate over the origins of the Sinhala race cannot be put to rest.
user:Dunuvidihewage 20:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Point of View

message: Durave is Cast and its nothing but with speaking languages.so this editor is biased with generalisations people into ethnic groups.
"Mainstream Sinhalese speakers claim Indian ethnic origins and are primarily engaged in agriculture. The presence of many service type castes or Jatis like the Durave indicate a complex migration history from India to Sri Lanka."
Eeriyaka (talk) 12:13, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Couldn't agree more. There is a deliberate attempt by this particular user (Taprobanus) to link the Sinhalese to South India and preferably aslo to Tamil Nadu, ignoring all the historical and anthropological evidence and studies, and the living proof found in the country. He doesn't give any references either. He ignores the fact that the Tamil system in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu is almost exactly the same, but tries desperately to find similarities with the Sinhalese and Tamil Nadu.   SriSuren (talk) 22:04, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: out of scope

message: This part: 
"The etymology of the Sinhalese word Durave or Durava has no clear meaning. In Tamil language Dorai stands for a headman and Madurai is a popular town in the Pandya kingdom. Early colonial literature recorded the Durave as Palanquin பல்லக்கு bearers from Madurai or Malabar coast of Kerala," has been deleted. Because:
1. Durave has absolutely no clear meaning in Tamil, either. Moreover The sentence makes no sense at all. It jumps from mentioning the Tamil word Dorai meaning chief to Palanquin bearers in Madurai. Anyway a Sinhalese word will not have an etymology in Tamil, if the word is of Tamil origin, it will be a loan word.  How the Tamil Thurais from Madurai became a caste of Palanquin bearers called Duruva in Sri lanka is not explained. The effort to link the Tamil word "Thurai" to Duruva, when there is the word Dhura meaning the same in Pali which the Sinhalese language comes from, is ridiculous. An explaination must be given. 
2. Source is not cited. 
If you put your sentence back the most plausible etymology which is from the Pali word Dhura must also be mentioned. I can do that, my source being the Pali dictionary. 
Cite your source with the page number, and replace the sentence. Uncited claims and misquoted distortions must be avoided. --SriSuren (talk) 21:48, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of the word Durava - Durava has no clear meaning in Tamil 

message: durava word come from word dhura in pali which means office.the names of durava shows that they had held offices during the time of southern kingdom.that's why they are abundant in southern region.toddy tappers imported from south India is a myth.Samanpress (talk) 18:10, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read WP:V and note WP:OR - these are cornerstones of Wikipedia. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 10:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  meaning of durava