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Reference FCO 37/2086
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title The Tamil community in Sri Lanka
Date 1978
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1972-1980
Region South Asia
Countries Sri Lanka
Places Ceylon; Colombo; Delhi; East Bengal; East Pakistan; India; Islamabad; Jaffna; Kandy; London; Pakistan
People Bandaranaike, Sirimavo; Bandaranaike, Solomon; Carter, James (Jimmy); Jayewardene, Junius Richard; Kotelawala, John; Owen, David, Baron Owen; Wilson, Harold, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
Topics agriculture; aircraft; army; assassination; banking; British Government; business; Catholicism; cemeteries, monuments and statues; Christianity; commodities; communications; democracy; disease; education; elections; food; Hinduism; independence; Indian National Congress; industrial development; Islam; Judaism; judicial system; labour; landlords; language; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ('Tamil Tigers'); massacre; migration; nationalism; oil; parliament; political parties; Protestantism; railway; Raj; refugees; riots and disturbances; roads; secessionism; separatism; slavery; socialism; state of emergency; trade; transport; United Nations; war; women
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