INTRODUCTION The newspaper “Island” carried an article by me under the title “The Fiction of Traditional Homelands and Land Use”in three instalments on 3rd, 4th and 6th August 1984. It contained excerpts from an 88 page memorandum given to the late Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India and to Mr. J. R. Jayewardene, President [...]
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TAMIL CLAIMS TO LAND: FACT AND FICTION By GAMINI IRIYAGOLLA
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