Tag: Vellala

Sri Lanka seems to be in a self destruct mood post LTTE.

They first targeted Tamils,divided the Muslims of Indian origin from the Tamils,Then started attacking Muslims, including the burning od Mosques.

Now it seems that it is the turn of the Hindus .

In a comedy called History a joker has been publishing articles that the Tamils were Buddhists and Jains first and later became Saivites/ Hindus!

“Tamil Saivites who believe that Tamil and Saivism are inextricably intertwined are troubled by suggestions that Tamils were once mainly Buddhist and Jain before Saivism took root after the seventh century AD as the Thevaram Period began. Many Saivites whose ancestors converted at the time think Tamil Saivites who converted to Christianity in European colonial times are traitors.”

This merits only laughter.

For I understand that this  as natural , if  coming from a man descended from a Lion!

But from a Tamil who is licking the boots of racists?

Is this guy Raj Narain or a Lalu Prasad Yadav to shower jokes?

At least they were/are harmless buffons.

And there is a vitriolic attack on Arumuganavalar, a great Saivaite.

I merely reproduce excerpts from the pulp for readers to enjoy.

“To digress a little, I actually believe that those Tamils who refused to convert became the Sinhalese and these include many ardent South Indian Jain and Buddhist believers who took shelter in Ceylon where Buddhists were comfortable as those refusing to convert in South India were being executed during the Thevaram period  –  even today a Madurai temple festival celebrates the impalement of 8000 Jains who refused to convert to the new state religion on the orders of Saint Sambandar and this is recorded by Nambi Andar Nambi (Aludaiya Pillaiyar Tiru-ula-malai, Stanzas 59 and 74). This incident dates to the beginning of Chola power at the close of the millennium before last. Nilkanta Shastri, who was not given to making heritage histories, states in his book (A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar, Oxford, 1958) that many Hindu temples today were once Buddhist and Jain”

Does he mean that there were no Hindus before this period in Sri Lanka!

And excellent interpretations of Caste too.

” Dominating Jaffna’s cultural life, Vellalas, as people who labour, are Sudras, the lowest of the caste groups of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra. (Dennis Hudson says Navalar’s caste is elite, something that Vellalas must have told him). Prof. Bryan Pfaffenberger calls Vellala control of Jaffna “Sudra Domination.” (Vellalas are a living contradiction, at once claiming to be high caste and also that the four-fold classification is North Indian and therefore not ours – a classic case of not wanting to be low Sudras and not wanting to give up their high status within Sudras. Caste is from North India and Vellalas need to take it or leave it.)”

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2013/03/31/arumuka-navalar-fake-images-and-histories/

http://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/heritage-histories-what-they-are-and-how-they-operate-through-jaffna/

Mr.Anil Gupta.Thanks for the Link.

I did not comment on the story at the site for it is beneath me to comment on these.

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