Dheshamaanya Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Ex-Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka and President Mahanuwara Sinhala Baudhdha Jesta Purawesiyange  Sanvidhanaya.

EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet, to realize their long term strategic and geopolitical goals in the Indo Pacific region.

The idea of EELAM in this country is a Western colonial invention, although that word was never mentioned in their earlier correspondence. Destroying the Sinhala nation and dividing Sri Lanka between Sinhalese and Tamils was the most important strategic intrigue of British colonial policy of divide and rule that was adopted by them from the time they ceded this country, to the United Kingdom in 1815. In this search

First, they discovered a captive word in the word Eelam and a cat’s paw in the Malabar community introduced to this country by them, to achieve these global objectives. This was also the time south India Tamils were dreaming of a land to establish their dream land of Eelam as they have no place Hindu dominated India.  Suddenly the Tamils found another dream land Kumari Kandam a mythical continent to the south of India extending from Madagascar to Australia which also included Sri Lanka according to them, the land of the present-day Sinhalese, lost due to large scale oceanic submergence in geological times, as their mythological writings of yesterday have propagated.

Probably they must have developed this myth based on the Lemura concept (now discarded as a myth) and the Continental Drift Concept developed by Alfred Wegener’s 1915 publication, where he postulated that continents were drifting over time and the present 5 continents originally had been one called Pangea, billions of years ago. At one time it splitted and the Americas drifted west while Australia and India together with Sri Lanka drifted east and Antartica Southward, leaving Africa in the center. Kumari Kandam myth was developed on this.   So, they selected Sri Lanka to re-create the lost mythical Tamil land called EELAM on this Island and started to write fairy tales digging in to Puraanas and Tamil mythological literature with the collaboration of the Western colonial powers, who are still day dreaming to dominate the world.

In this hunt the Western invaders found a place to locate their project. But none of these eelaamists admit that the word eelam was a word used by the South Indians to call Sinhale the land of the Sinahla people – from 543, which the South Indians pronounced it as Siihalam meaning the land of the Sinhala people. Prior to that this land was called Lanka in epics like Ramaayana, Mahabharatha and ancient Purana literature like Agni purana and Skandha purana. Lanka in that context was used to mean beautiful or resplendent. But in one Puraana it says that it is called Lanka as it is situated at the center of the world. (Bhuu Madhyaye ankiyathithi Lanka”. Mahavamsa, the Great Epic of the Sinhala nation and most ancient literary sources called it Lankadeepa, meaning the Island of Lanka. The fact that all these pre-historical, historical, Epigraphical, Archaeological and literary sources had called it either Lanka or Sinhale, has proved beyond all reasonable doubt that this Island had been called by either Lankaa or Sinhale throughout, both in historic and pre-historic times. Even all south Indian sources also had called it Sihalam (meaning the land of the Sinhala People) or Ilankai (a corrupted version of Lanka)

 Second, they also found a suitable ally to use as the cat’s paw in this malignant operation. In view of the longstanding animosity between the South Indian Tamils and the Sri Lankan Sinhalese they found the correct ally, as they think, to setup against the Sinhalese to divide this country. So, first they flooded the Island with Malabar coolies in tens of thousands to be settled all over the country.  At the same an army of nearly 1.2 million indentured Malabar slaves were also settled in the central hill country, on 1.3 million acres formally owned by the 2600-year-old Sinhala Buddhist civilization State, after ceding it to the United Kingdom by the Kandyan Convention in 1815. They did so by murdering all native Sinhala males over 18 years on orders of Brownrigg, that murderer English man, and making those spared by their guns, swords and those died of deprivation to run in to the eastern jungles after implementing their scorched land policies and taking over their lands by draconian laws. Thereafter they initiated action to create two independent adversary States, one Sinhala and the other, Tamil with the following long-term objectives as their dream.        

First, to consolidate the invader’s immediate hold on the colony

Second, to take revenge from the Sinhala Buddhists of this country for the valiant resistance they displayed, never seen in any other country, in the 1803, 1817-1918 and 1848 rebellions and the humiliations they suffered at the hands of the brave Sinhala forces and the damages caused to their so-called invincible troops.

Third, to prevent this Island becoming the future geo-political, geo- strategic and geo-economic hub of the Indian ocean in the 21st century in view of its central geographical location right at the center of the Indian Ocean and around with enormous resources at a hub where all the 21st century aviation and marine routes meet and

Fourth, to enable them to use this divided Island, to meet their future dream true of commanding the Indo Pacific zone competitively, even without India, by having two adversary states within this Island, side by side , holding its land, strategic ports and Airports equally divided between them.

This concept was a joint invention of British Civil servants and American missionaries. At the same time Tamil extremists harboring millennia old animosity towards the Sinhalese, picked up this idea tacitly supported by the invader to work on it, hoping to fulfil a dream they had failed to achieve from the 2nd century BC of capturing this beautiful Island on this planet, which they have miserably failed for millennia in spite of nearly 20 invasions carried out by them over time. The Westerners at the same time realized the best bait to catch the Tamil fish was the Eelam. That is why they supported it and continue to do so even at present.

Tamil Eelam (which literarily means Tamil-Sinhala Land ,  which the Tamils don’t understand ) according to them is the name first, referring to the northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka that the Tamil movement regards as the national land of the Tamil people(sadly forgetting that it is found in South India only) and later to  be extended to cover the whole Island and thereafter to move across to South India and ending up after capturing the entire Indian Subcontinent as they have said long time ago. According to the name EELAM literally means Tamil Sri Lanka”, where as it does not, as it really means only Tamil-Sinhala Land) Their second step is to use it to refer to the whole island (the present Tamil name for it is Ilankai -as they write it. That also actually confirms that the name of this country is Lanaka. The Tamil lexicons (Nika’ndu), Thivaakaram, Pingkalam and Choodaama’ni, dating from c. 8th century CE, equate the word Eezham with Chingka’lam (the Sinhala country). Sri Lankan historian Karthigesu Indrapala in his thesis released in 1965 suggested that the people from whose named Eelam is derived were Sinhalese. The confusion and the struggle Tamils make here frequently using words like Lanka and Chingka ‘lam in this chess game clearly shows their desperate effort to prove an unwinnable   game. Further if you read chapters 2 to 8 of Sinhalese of Ceylon and the Ariyan Theory by Samuel Livingston, you will find as to how may yarns, they have invented trying to impress the world that Sri Lanka had been a Tamil country. (the date deliberately not given. But I have found that it was published in Landon in1970) 

All these are mere fanatic speculations only, not substantiated by historical or other evidence. Also connected with other speculations like Lemuria and Kumari kandam and Continental Drift Theory by Alfred Wegener 1915. These Tamil lunatics turn the sun and moon to prove something they can never do.  Where is the Archaeological, epigraphical architectural, historical and literary evidence to prove these mad speculations. I invite those interested in finding a permanent answer to this riddle to read EELAM EXPOSED by L.K.N. Perera (LLB Cey) 2020.

The Cleghorn report (1799) the first attempt to divide Sri Lanka on Sinhala Tamil basis

The first recorded attempt on this proposed mythical Tamil state (although the name EELAM is not mentioned there) is found in the Cleghorn report (1799) submitted to the first Governor Fredric North (1798-1805).

I quote Cleghorn report.

Native Inhabitants’ Two different nations, from very ancient period, have divided between them the possessions of the Island. First the Singalese inhabiting the interior of the country, in its Southern and Western parts, from the river Wallouwe, to that of Chilow and secondly, the Malabars. Who possess the northern and eastern districts. These two nations differ entirely in their religion, language and manners. The former who are allowed to be the earlier settlers, drive their origin from Siam, professing the ancient religion of that country” No 1799. June 1. Hugh Cleghorn. Colonial Secretary.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

 It was this false quote, a blatant lie, the TULF quoted as a divine statement in their Vadukkodei Resolution May 14th 1976. Now you see how for long this vicious colonial intrigue was in action and also the history of British-Tamil colonial collaboration in this diabolical coup to divide this country had been in operation

Similarly, a Wesleyan Church Report called ‘Missionary conference of South India and Ceylon” in their report says. In Jan. 1819 the Missionaries met together again in Galle to hold their 5th annual conference. The most important resolution of this meeting was the division of Ceylon in to two districts, to be designated the Singhalese and Tamil districts.”  

It is important to note here the timing of the date of ceding this country to the UK as Sinhale, by the Kandyan Convention (2nd March 1815), the dates of uprisings in1817.1818 Uva Wellassa native Sinhala Rebellion sand the date of the Royal Declaration no 1 issued by Brown Wrigg on Nov 21. 1818, unilaterally breaking the covenants of the 1815 Kandyan Convention and the timing of the above Missionary conference Jan. 1819, have taken place within a matter of 4 years. This coincidence clearly shows the vicious intension of the British to split this country right from the beginning of their taking over.

The Island  of Sinhale-Ceylon as they called it, meaning the land of the Sinhalese was governed, rather misgoverned, by the British since then, up to 1948 by royal Proclamations and legislative enactments made under British Royalty to tighten their grip over the colony, completely ignoring and violating the Kandyan Convention of March 2nd 1815, which was an International Agreement entered upon, between two sovereign States in 1815, that is legally valid even today.  as it had never been legally invalidated up to date.

The 1818 Nov. Proclamation was followed by the Colebrook Commission 1832.That recommended the division of the Island in to 5 provinces Namely, North, East, South, West and Central among many other landmarks such as the abolition of traditional Rajakariya system, the foundation on which the democratic social system in this country rested and the mechanism that mobilized the village level development all over the country, like irrigation, roads and overall development of the Sinhale Kingdom.

Probably they must have thought of assigning the North, East and the Central Province to Malabar Tamils in future under the name Eelam, leaving only the Western and the Southern Provinces for Sinhalese as Cleghorn, the rogue,  conspired in 1799.  Ever since the governance of this Island nation had been replete with tragic stories of oppression, repression, exploitation and discriminations against the Sinhalese while conferring special privileges to minorities. In 1852 after killing tens of thousands native Sinhalese they declared Roman Dutch law as the law of the land again openly and blatantly violating the provisions of the Kandyan Convention. Thus, although the native Sinhalese were deprived of the native legal system, Tamils in the Jaffna district were allowed to use their law Thesavalamei, a new law invented by the Dutch for Malabar Tamils coolies with 300-year history on this land brought by them to work on their tobacco plantations and even Muslims were given the privilege of enjoying the Muslim Law.

Isn’t it a historical tragedy that none of the native Sinhala leaders had insisted that all administrative division should confirm to the pattern that existed in 1815 and the name of the country and the administrative divisions together with place name should never be changed and no new divisions under new names that might endanger age old traditions and customs as agreed upon by the Kandyan Convention 1815. Probably they were powerless as the ruling hierarchy was fully controlled the agents of the Brtish government, and there were no Sinhala leaders left after the inhuman massacres carried out by the British in 1818 and 1848 freedom struggles till about the late 1860s when we saw the beginning of the birth of a new generation of the genre of Anagarika Dharmapala, the first among them and the re -immergence of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism.   

As soon as the British conquered the maritime province in 1796, they made 300 kovils on ancient Buddhist archaeological Buddhist sites destroyed jointly by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British successively in the Jaffa district. Again in 1833 when the Colebrook Commission divided the country in to 5 provinces, they attached Anuradhapura district to the Northern province to be administered by Jaffna and Polonnaruwa to the Eastern province to be administered by Trincomalee.

 In addition, they put up Christiana schools mainly in Tamil dominated coastal areas making it 45 in the Jaffna district out of a total 105 for the whole country by 1845. These 105 were mainly located in coastal areas where there was a significant Tamil population, making the Sinhala dominated rest of the country comprising[S1]  over 90 % of the area of the Island almost empty with the exception of Kandy town where there was a few as there was a converted Christian Sinhala and Tamil population in addition to the plantation sector dominated by British. There by the majority Sinhala population comprising almost 90 % of the total population were grossly discriminated and left neglected. Local education system centered around the Pirivena was completely neglected.

Thereby the British built up an English educated social group who catered to the needs of the colonial administration making the schools in Jaffna and Colombo, the factories that turned out the man power to run the system. Since education was not free only the rich in Jaffna, Colombo and towns could afford English education making the majority Sinhalese uneducated, poor and helpless. By and large this system prevailed until free education was introduce under the Kannangara reforms were introduced in 1945 that opened the doors to the majority Sinhala people

Meanwhile the British also built up an elite Tamil class, in Jaffna and few in Colombo mostly converted, like Ponnamabalans, Arunachalam, Coomaraswamis and Mahadevans some of whom were even married to English women. British also provided special privileges to Tamils making them Doctors, Lawyers engineers and Accountants to raise them above the Sinhalese. The Sinhala educated class in Colombo and the interior were also divided as Kandyans and Lowcountry and also caste wise setting each caste and group against the other making every possible trick to divide the Lankan Nation particularly the Sinhala Buddhistese and Tamil giving the impression that Tamils are intellectually superior to Sinhalese.  The worse was the division of Sinhalese in to two antagonistic groups as  Kandyan’s and Low country Sinhalese. This was how the British ruled the country paving the way for the Tamils to feal superior to Sinhalese and they are the people who are fit to rule Sri Lanka.

This was a well-conceived divide and rule policy adopted by the British all over the world that gave them high dividends and while the natives suffered. This was also the primary objective of introducing the Eelam concept to this country. Even at present they follow the same policy. For example, that is why all these countries like the UK Canda and USA support Tamil Diaspora in different way to destabilize and ruin this country. Although presently, they belong to many countries, the hard fact remains, that they all are decedents of the old Britain and other European countries like France Spain, Portugal and Poland and thus far birds of the same feather flocked together.

For all these colonial invaders in this country, their common enemy was the Sinhala Buddhists, as they fear the extinction of their religion and their Abrahamic civilization by 2050 and the emergence of Buddhism as the only surviving religion in the world as predicted in The Deep Range in 1957, a science fiction novel by the celebrated British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

So, in this backdrop I conclude, by requesting the misguided Tamil brothers and sisters the world over, to give up this mythical path of disaster at least now, as EELAM is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka and set them against the Sinhala Buddhist nation to destroy them on this planet, to meet their vicious private ends. We Sinhalese request you not become a cat’s paw of the Western colonial for they are the common enemy of not only you and us, but of the whole world as it is happening in the middle east just now.

Please remember! Sri Lankadeepa or Sinhale is the promised land of the Sinhala nation, thrice blessed by the Lord Buddha where the Sinhala nation will protect his doctrine for 5000 years to come as they value it more than their lives. If you want an Eelam, please go back to where it is, in South India, from where you have come under economic compulsion or you were brought   or brought by your white masters to labour for them, under trying conditions for a penny, to make their coffers in London rich and for them to build empires where the sun never set, as they boast and left behind high and dry on someone else land as destitute, after sucking your blood nearly for 170 years and now they entice you to fight with us gleefully watching from London having created problems for us as well as you.  As a labour force that had laboured for them to build their Empire either they should have returned to your former mother land with adequate compensation or taken you to their country as you were also British citizens at that time. Under these circumstances it is with the you have to fight for human rights. We have never asked you to come. It was they who herded you here. It is for them for whom you laboured and not for us. Therefore, it is their bounden duty to take you back either to their home or to your own homeland.  As such we are not duty bound to look after you or give you, our land. This just like a tenant leaving behind his servants in our house when he leaves and asking the owner of the house to look after him/her or the servant so left behind demanding the owner of the house to keep the servant in his house and demanding the house owner to look after the rights of their servant.  

On the other hand, if you want to enjoy the luxuries of this blessed Island of our, then accept it as our land, the motherland of the Sinhala nation for the last 2600years, who have found and developed  its civilization and culture and protected it  for the last 2600 years in war against your own ancestors who had invaded it unsuccessfully and attempted to conquer over20 times  starting from the 2^nd century BC up to savages destructions by Maga invasions in the 12^th century,  and again defended it for 500 years against the three brutal European invaders, the Portuguese, Dutch and the English from 1505 to date  and protected that 2600 year old civilization and culture in spite of the fact even during that period your ancestor took the enemy’s side against us and our motherland. Therefore, we not duty bound to look after you interests and you have no right either to ask for it from us.

 We, as a Sinhala Buddhist nation we are prepared to accommodate you provided you give up all your crazy divisive ambitions and integrate with native Sinhalese and resolve to live together in peace and tranquility as brothers and sisters of one great human, family until you breathe your last breath without day dreaming for a mythical Eelam on this land of the Sinhala race.

But there are few compulsory conditions you have to agree to be bound by.

1 You have to renounce all your attachments to India, mental economic cultural and political and you have to breath as Sri Lankans and not as Indians as you all do now

2. You have to learn the language of the country and get fully integrate with the culture of the land.

3. you have sign a legal agreement with the Government of the country that you will be faithful to this country only on usual conditions normally agreed upon when you become a citizen of any country

 In the event you cannot abide by these conditions then there is no other alternative but to return to your former motherland

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