The ethnic in Sri Lanka: a historical overview on the Sinhalese and Tamil relations and conflicts in the British colonial administration

Abstract

: Sri Lanka perviously known, as Ceylon one of the western colonization's victim in the current world. The British, which have ruled the beautiful Island more than one hundred and fifty years pioneers of the present of the ethnic problem. It would not be silly or exaggerating to draw such a frank conclusion. This academic discussion by pointing developments of the ethnic relations and conflict during the British administration period, attempts to establish a theory that relation between the different ethnic groups were, only deteriorated after British intrigue to damage smooth relations for their political survival