Karthigesu Indrapala, a Sri lankan Tamil, has his early
education in Jaffna and later joined the academic staff of the University of Ceylon,
Peradeniya, in the late fifties after obtaining a Honours Degree in History from the same
University. His thesis, which was supervised by Dr J G de Casparis, Reader in History of
South and Sough East Asia, has conclusively contradicted on the basis of historical
evidence the commonly held views regarding the origins of the Tamils (in SL), and provided
an accurate picture of the Dravidian settlements durig the Anuradhapura kingdom till the
tenth century. DRAVIDIAN SETTLEMENTS IN CEYLON
