A Comparison Of The Conflicts Between Independence And Declaration Of Independence

Conflict was present between various ethnic groups long before the instatement of independence and partition of Ceylon from British rule. From 1815 when Britain first began to build plantations on the island, to 1948 when it finally gained independence from it’s mother country, Ceylon had been a pillar for industrialization and development. In fact, it was no stranger to colonialism for before the British had taken over, it was the Dutch, and before the Dutch, there were the Portuguese. Four hundred and forty years of colonialism had formed a cultural mosaic where a significant minority of people were multiracial. Subsequently under British rule, South Indian laborers were brought to plantations in Ceylon in order to “work on rubber, tea and