Sinhalese chronicles also say that when the Sinhalese people migrated from India to Sri Lanka about 3,000 years ago, the Adivasi were already living in Sri Lanka.

The Sinhalese community in Malaysia and South-East Asia are small but yet thriving in their contribution to the country and also the region. In South-East Asian countries like Malaysia and ...

The researchers noted that Sri Lanka's major ethnic group is Sinhalese, which is 74.9 percent. Sri Lankan Tamils and Muslims (locally known as Moors) are 11.1 percent and 9.3 percent, respectively.

It seems very doubtful whether the Sinhalese people, with the possible exception of a few of the “educated” of whom Dr. Coomaraswamy speaks with scant sympathy, ...