Portuguese ruined Jaffna: Historian

The Hindustan Times | April 10, 2006 | Copyright

NEW DELHI, India, April 10 -- Today, the Tamil-speaking Jaffna peninsula in north Sri Lanka is a bastion of orthodox Shiva worshipping Hindus.

But historians say that during Portuguese rule in the 17th century, it was entirely Catholic.

The fascinating story of how and why Jaffna became Catholic en masse, and why it reverted to Hinduism with equal alacrity when the Dutch replaced the Portuguese in 1658, is told by Prof Tikiri Abeyasinghe in his book Jaffna under the Portuguese, which was first published in 1986.

"Portuguese documents reporting conversions in Jaffna do so invariably in ...

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