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This is a list of Indians in Sri Lanka. The list includes notable people from multiple different ethnicities, as well as people native to India who are living in or notable in Sri Lanka. There is also large number of Sinhalese identifying Sri Lankans of Indian descent, such as the Karava caste and Demalagattara [1] Muthiah Muralidaran, popular ...
Lists of office-holders in Sri Lanka (1 C, 9 P) P. ... Pages in category "Lists of Sri Lankan people by occupation" The following 16 pages are in this category, out ...
AIESEC (/ ˈ aɪ s ɛ k / EYE-sek [1]) is an international "youth-run" and led, non-governmental and not-for-profit organization that provides young people with business development internships. The organization focuses on empowering young people to make a progressive social impact. The AIESEC network includes approximately 40,000 members in ...
Before the 1911 Ceylon Census Moors in Sri Lanka were counted as one. From the census onwards they were divided into Indian Moors and Sri Lankan Moors. Indian Moors were brought to Sri Lanka for the same reasons as the Indian Tamils, as labourers to the plantations. In 1971 Indian Moors numbered 29,416 declining from 55,400 in 1963.
Arjuna Mahendran – former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and former Chairman of Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (note: also listed in Corporate Executives) [75] Indrajit Coomaraswamy – former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and former Director Economic Affairs, Commonwealth Secretariat [76]
The Universities Act No. 16 of 1978 radically altered university education in Sri Lanka. The University of Sri Lanka was abolished and its six campuses (Colombo, Peradeniya, Sri Jayewardenepura, Kelaniya, Moratuwa and Jaffna) were each elevated to independent, autonomous universities. A gazette was issued on 22 December 1978 establishing the ...
The Urdu-speaking community is also present in other parts of the subcontinent with a historical Muslim presence, such as the Deccanis, the Biharis [16] and Dhakaiyas (who speak Dhakaiya Urdu) in Bangladesh, [113] the Urdu-speaking members of the Madheshi community in Nepal, [114] some Muslims in Sri Lanka [115] and a section of Burmese Indians ...
In the ending years of the 1970s, the seven inner South Asian nations that included Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, agreed upon the creation of a trade bloc and to provide a platform for the people of South Asia to work together in a spirit of friendship, trust, and understanding.