Acknowledgment
Many persons, who are deeply concerned about the questionable nature of charges brought against the Sri Lankan forces that vanquished the powerful LTTE, saving almost 300,000 Tamil civilians marooned at the Nandikadal lagoon in...
This thesis is a study of the settlements founded by Dravidian-speakers from South India, chiefly the Tamils Ceylon before the end of the thirteenth century. Although any notable Dravidian settlement was not established in the island until after the conquest of the Colas at the turn of the tenth century, we have included in this study the sporadic and scattered settlements of earlier times as well.
