genocidal sinhala state cultivates ‘historiography’ in new delhi

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Genocidal Sinhala State cultivateshistoriography in New Delhi

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 05:41 GMT]

Like getting journalists, politicians, diplomats and academics in

India from time to time over the decades, to engineer public

opinion justifying the genocidal unity and integrity of the Sinhala-

Buddhist State in the island, Colombo is now actively engaged in

grooming historiographers in India specialised in the Sinhala-

Buddhist State history, to which New Delhis Jawaharlal Nehru

University (JNU) has become the partner and space provider, said

an academic in Jaffna. He was citing the JNU in collaboration with

the genocidal States High Commission in New Delhi starting a

course in the university last year on State, Society and religion in

Sri Lanka, from circa 3rd century BCE to 13th century CE with

specific focus on Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa period.

Further comments from the academic in Jaffna:

This is the first specially designed course of study on Sri Lankan history

in an Indian university, Colombo media reports eulogised.

We are told that the Sinhala States High Commission in New Delhi is

supplying selective study material for the students following the course

and doing research.

The number of students last year was around 40. As an institution created
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While Sinhala historians view the event as responsible for the formation of

a Sinhala-Buddhist State in the island, and interpret that the State centred

at Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa owned the entire Island, imperialist

historians of New Delhi for whom the Mauryan Empire is the forerunner of

Indian Imperialism, view the event as State in the island setting a

paradigm in accepting the hegemony of Indian imperialism centred in the

North.

13th century CE marks the time when Sinhala and Tamil identities evolving

over centuries out of a common substratum with demography added fromtime to time, became nations of separate territoriality. A part of the

Dravidian substratum in the island that resisted language replacement and

existed in parallel, found new impetus, came out of Buddhism too, and thus

Tamils and Sinhalese became separate States of their respective

territories.

One may now understand, why the head, the South Indian substratum part

evidenced by archaeology and genetics, and the tail, the part of separate

Tamil and Sinhala State existence, are truncated from the first of its kind

history course on the island initiated by todays genocidal Sri Lanka and

taught by the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

In its orientation, the course would end up in promoting a historiographyamong Indian students that would justify the entire island claim of the

dominant formation and would detract the historical achievement of

statehood by Eezham Tamils.

While indirectly following a Mahavamsa outline, as well as Anuradhapura-


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centric and Polonnaruwa-centric focus for the study of the Sinhala Buddhist

State, will the JNU start a course on the evolution of the identity and

Statehood of Eezham Tamils in the island?

This is not the first time the JNU shade of academic imperialism

collaborates with the agenda of genocidal Sri Lanka.

JNUs South Asian Studies Professor S.D. Muni was awarded Sri Lanka

Ratna for his services to the Sri Lankan State, along with The Hindus N.

Ram, during the regime of Chandrika Kumaratunga Bandaranaike.

JNUs emeritus star historian, Professor Romila Thapar was one of the first

to rush to the island and to bestow academic recognition to the Rajapaksa

regime immediately after the genocidal war. She was focussing on

preaching Buddhism and on detracting Tamil diaspora voicing for the

liberation of genocide-facing Eezham Tamils.

Tamil Nadu that notices New Delhis training to Sinhala military, sports

politics of Sri Lanka etc., often misses challenging and coming out with

counter measures to some of the most fundamental engineering of long

term impact undertaken by the genocidal partners at the opinion shaping

level of academics, journalists etc.

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