Chief Justice Burnside (1882) rejected Vellala “show of force and terror” and confirmed one law, one nation.
Saturday, September 12th, 2020H. L. D. Mahindapala Once upon a colonial time, when the Vellalas dominated the casteist fiefdom of Jaffna, a husband of a low-caste Tamil decided to bury his wife accompanied by the ritual of beating the tom-tom. But beating the tom-tom was an exclusive privilege accorded only to the Vellalas, the highest caste. The ritual […]
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