When I tell people the
last King of the Kandyan Kingdom was a Tamil, they don’t believe it. When I
further state that one of the main languages of the Court was also Tamil, they
tell me to get out of here, and so we have bred some dastardly bastards who claim
to be Kandyan but have no clue about what Kandyan Hospitality was all about.
Kandyan hospitality
created a fairer community in the hills, whose genes both technically
interbred, due to their method of marrying within close knit families, and
polyandry, and also of sharing foreigners with their wives resulting in the
more knowledgeable and less mentally deficient sons and daughters turning out
to be fair. Remember many a product of interbreeding had severe defects, one of
which was a huge reduction in fertility. This enabled the products of secret
liaisons to emerge as the new Kandyan and the more able of them were promoted
to positions of authority, which then resulted in the Adigars of the Kandyan
Kingdom, and other noblemen.
That said it is important
that this history is also taught so that the prejudice many have against Tamils
is set aside, and instead replaced with gene testing that prove that many
Sinhala people have blood from all parts of the globe, and technically Tamil
people have more native in them, along with their Dravidian counterparts in
South India.
All this goes to prove the
whole boru show, about two nations. We are one nation, who must live side by
side equally giving both languages equal status, and all in Sri Lanka must be
taught three languages, with English an essential language of the global
workplace where we find our citizens having to compete with others.
I know that in time when
knowledge improves, some of the divisive politics of racial bigots will be
extinguished forever. I tolerate a lot of the nonsense that is spewed by racist
fear mongering, because I know that it is a matter of time when all the
assumptions and innuendos that are made against other races and religions
disappears into the ether. It is therefore interesting to read the last gasps
of these bigots in their blogs, trying to get traction on subjects they know
nothing of.
I am impatient to see this
transformation amongst our very young, so that we no longer have to live in a society
of prejudice and misplaced fear of minorities. The threat to society is really the
idiot who is full of hate, based on false premises. It is important that children
who are born with no prejudice remain such, with the adults having to undergo a
transition from divisive thinking to inclusive thinking. Let us not forget that
this bigot, is Buddhist, Muslim, Christian and Hindu too.
To be accurate the Last Three Kings.
ReplyDeleteSpecially Kirti Sri Rajasinha who revived Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
Then how many know that Nissanka Malla was from Kalinga/Orissa.
Thanks for the post. I'm with you as I have came to known these facts are true. Even when I told anybody bout these things thay laugh at me...Keep it up. Keep wiritng. If you can translate this to Sinhalait will attract much needed attention specially in this time where we are heading bloody massacre once again led by most unproductive and most destructive section of our society who are forced us to belive all the history that they are setting the guadians of this society of Sihalaeese Sri Lanka.
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