Quotes About Sinhalese

The Sinhalese were perplexed by their endemic restlessness and their eating habits, declaring the Portuguese to be "a very white and beautiful people, who wear hats and boots of iron and never stop in one place. They eat a sort of white stone and drink blood." Such

While the Sinhalese are a majority on their island, they are, as historian Kingsley M.de Silva has noted, a majority with a minority complex.

Until the 1930s, a heavy belt of forests north of ancient capital, Anuradhapura, formed a natural barrier between the Sinhalese and Tamil peoples.

Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.