The first video in the series introduces the island of Sri Lanka, the people that live there and where they come from, with a particular focus on the Sinhalese and the Tamils. It also explores part of Colombo.
Sources:
-A History of Sri Lanka, K. M. de Silva -Elephant Complex; Travels in Sri Lanka, John Gimlette
-The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, Gordon Weiss
-The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History, Sanjeev Sanyal
-This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, Samanth Subramanian
- Various news sources, especially The Economist
00:00 Intro
01:20 Geography
02:30 Ethnicity
03:33 Veddas
04:40 Sinhalese
05:12 Tamils
08:31 Indian Tamils
09:45 Caste
11:50 Sinhalese-Tamil Relations
13:30 Moors/Muslims
15:15 Summary
15:56 Colombo
How this was made
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Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated
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