Caritas Sri Lanka proudly launched 02 essential research books in the context of the plantation community in Sri Lanka on 3rd October 2024 at CSL-SEDEC under the ‘Lighting the Lives of the Plantation People (LLPP) project. Ecological Conservation and Plantation People (ECPP) Unit has been implementing projects that underscore Caritas Sri Lanka’s commitments towards environmental stewardship…
This year (2023) marks the completion of two hundred years of existence of the upcountry Tamil people or Malaiyaha Tamils in Sri Lanka. It is assumed that the upcountry Tamil people were brought from India by the British colonial regime in 1823 to be employed in the coffee plantations in the upcountry area of the…
The study focuses on the most pressing contemporary concerns concerning the culture and identity of Indian-Origin Tamils (IOTs) in Sri Lanka. During 1823, migrated Indian Tamils created a new socioeconomic group in the country and formed as were forced to focus primarily on the plantation sector, which had been developed by the British to gain…
