Matale Sri Lanka - Pongal Hindu Temple & Vegetable Market

Matale is a town in the hill country of Sri Lanka, 142 kilometres (88 mi) from Colombo and 26 kilometres (16 mi) from Kandy. It is an area steeped in history and village living.
This video is a ride in a Tuk Tuk (auto rickshaw) to the Sri Muththumari Amman Hindu Temple on Pongal the Hindu New Year. The temple is a Hindu shrine built by the South Indian traders who lived and did business in the town and in estates around Matale about 200 years ago. Also the end of the video is a video of the vegetable market
The Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka are Tamil people of Indian origin in Sri Lanka. They are also known as Hill country Tamils, Up-country Tamils or simply Indian Tamils. They are separate from the The once Tamil Tiger contolled North and North East. They are partly descended from workers sent from South India to Sri Lanka in the 19th and 20th centuries to work in coffee, tea and rubber plantations. Some also migrated on their own as merchants and as other service providers. These Tamil-speakers mostly live in the central highlands, also known as the Malayakam or Hill Country yet others are also found major urban areas and in the Northern province. Although they are all termed as Tamils today, some have Telugu and Malayalee origins as well as diverse South Indian caste origins. They are instrumental in the plantation sector economy of Sri Lanka. In general socio economically their standard of living is below that of the national average. In 1964 a large percentage were expatriated back to India but left a considerable number as stateless people. By 1990's most of these have been given Sri Lankan citizenship. Most are Hindus with a minority of Christians and Muslims amongst them. Politically they are supportive of trade union derived political parties that have supported most of the ruling coalition since the 1980s.

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• Hindu
• matale
• Pongal
• Sri Muththumari Amman
• Hindu Temple
• Vegetable Market
• Bawa
• Sri Lanka
• Tea
• Lou Wilson

[NaamTamilars]

pongal is a thanks giving day or harvest festival. Tamil new year falls on mid April. I think the buddhist in Sri lanka, Thailand n Myanmar foollow the Tamil almanac

[sagekd]

nice