Why isn't Sri Lanka a Part of India? 

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The simple answer is Sri Lanka has always been an Independent country, (Not in the British colonial era). In Sri Lankan Written History, even 2500 years ago Sri Lanka was an Independent country.

Its like a question "Why is japan not a part of Chaina? "😂😂

Anyone here from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 👇

Sri Lankans are unique.

Sree lanka is an independent country love from kerala india.

what I noticed is Sri Lankan culture is similar to Thailand, Vietnam etc. It's really different from India. Maybe mainly because of Buddhism (Sinhalese culture. not the Tamils).

Sri Lanka never been a part of India for last 5000 years

Most Sri Lankans (80%) are Sinhalese and speak the Sinhala language which only exists in Sri Lanka. It's a unique nation with unique people and unique culture. And it was never a part of India.

As an Indian we support sovereignty and integrity of Srilanka ❤

I don`t know why Western Think Asia haven`t existence before colonization , India and Sri lanka been separated more than 2500 years of written history , you only talked about just 500 years of colonization ??

Because Sri Lanka is a GOOD country

sri lanka never was a part of India although some parts of India were conquered by sri lanka in the past and some indian empeires took control of some parts of sri lanka.

Why isn't Sri Lanka part of India? Answer: because the Tamils and Sinhalese were able to put aside their differences temporarily to defend their home from Indian invasion.

Ceylon was never part of mughal empire and not ruled by british east indian company like india

Really enjoyed this breakdown of Sri Lanka’s history and its relationship with India. The video highlights how geography, colonial history, and cultural differences all contributed to Sri Lanka developing its own national identity, separate from its larger neighbor.

I'm Sri Lankan and thank you for this video

Srilanka will always be an independent country. God bless srilanka and srilankans

ශ්‍රී ලංකා මාතා අප ශ්‍රී ලංකා නමෝ නමෝ නමෝ නමෝ මාතා සුන්දර සිරිබරිනී සුරැඳි අති ශෝභමාන ලංකා ධාන්‍ය ධනය නෙක මල් පලතුරු පිරි ජය භුමිය රම්‍යා අප හට සැප සිරි සෙත සදනා ජීවනයේ මාතා පිළිගනු මැන අප භක්තී පූජා නමෝ නමෝ මාතා අප ශ්‍රී ලංකා නමෝ නමෝ නමෝ නමෝ මාතා ඔබ වේ අප විද්‍යා ඔබ මය අප සත්‍යා ඔබ වේ අප ශක්ති අප හද තුළ භක්තී ඔබ අප ආලෝකේ අපගේ අනුප්‍රාණේ ඔබ අප ජීවන වේ අප මුක්තිය ඔබ වේ නව ජීවන දෙමිනේ නිතින අප පුබුදු කරන් මාතා ඥාන වීර්ය වඩවමින රැගෙන යනු මැන ජය භූමී කරා එක මවකගෙ දරු කැල බැවිනා යමු යමු වී නොපමා ප්‍රේම වඩා සැම භේද දුරැර දා නමෝ නමෝ මාතා අප ශ්‍රී ලංකා නමෝ නමෝ නමෝ නමෝ මාතා

sri lanka never was a part of india at all , even not during british rule, british raj didnt include lanka lanka and maldives ruled seperately as british ceylon

I am more interested in "Why Bangladesh is not part of India?" I think Sri Lanka was never ever a part of ancient India. But if Bangladesh is part of India it would make India more integrated

India is a British creation Sri Lanka was a sinhalese nation state even since 5th century BCE

Sri Lanka is Sri Lanka. Not only culture but even nature and animals are different from India. The Sri Lankan elephant and leopard and other animals are separate subspecies unique to Sri Lanka.

Neither Sinhalese nor Tamil are Indian, they are on the Indian subcontinent and have cultural exchange with Bhārat dynasties to the north but that doesn't make them Indian. Most of today Southern and Northeastern India were seperate kingdoms for most of recorded history and only became India in 1947 after being conquered by the Gandhi-Nehru regime

The majority of Sri Lankans or Sinhalese has a distinct religious, political and cultural background from India due to Buddhist reformations and relationships like in Burma. Sinhalese culture tends towards Southeast Asia because of this. Sinhalese give priority to Buddhism even today, as mentioned in the Constitution of Republic. Historically, Sinhalese kings were Buddhist or atleast patronizers of Buddhism like Nayakkar Kings of Kandy. The King of Sinhalese must be a Buddhist as declared by King Nissankamalla of Polonnaruwa (1187-1196) in his stone inscriptions. The sacred Tooth Relic of Buddha was the symbol of royalty in Sinhalese Kingdoms from the reign of King Sirimeghavanna of Anuradhapura. The person who was in possession of the Tooth Relic was considered as the rightful ruler of the country. Some Kings adopted the name of Tooth Relic as a honour, such as King Dhathappabhuti of Anuradhapura (539-540). These religious and cultural requirements were considered even by the British. When the kingdom of Kandy was captured by British in 1815, they signed to a treaty with Kandyan chiefs at the temple of tooth. This proclamation consisted of 12 clauses including, "The religion of Buddhism is declared inviolable and its rights to be maintained and protected". India and Sri Lanka have deep cultural connections, but Sri Lankan culture is not identical to India. Even the Gods were unable to escape this cultural difference. Buddhahood is the supreme in Sinahalese culture, Gods don't have a bigger role like in India. Very many Gods of South India are worshipped by Sinhalese as well, but with different names and stories. Few examples are shown below; Kannagi as Paththini Amma, Pattani Swami as Gambara deviyo, Murugan as Kataragama deviyo. Sinahlese don't have the same social structure as Indians. Sinhalese caste system is also very simple than that of Indians. Sinhalese society is free from Brahmins. These factors have greatly affected the sovereignty of Sri Lanka apart from the colonial history and its impact.

As an Interracial person and man who has English,Sri Lankan and Indian through my ancestries,I only fully want Sri Lanka to be a nation ever and never ever merge with India!!!Sri Lanka must ever be a nation and I fully like one of my nations daily and ever despite living in Malaysia,good friends!!!In future,I must work hard to visit this beautiful island nation and the respective people in Sri Lanka must live happily and peacefully ever as well,good friends!!!LONG LIVE SRI LANKA!!!🇱🇰

Sri lanka was not just a country we were very important part of this world thousand years back and had very unique of its own culture

I wonder how history could have gone on the Indian sub-continent if the British Raj was transformed into a multi-ethnic federation, as opposed to multiple countries. It could have curtailed the worst excesses of all parties involved.

Sri Lanka and Maldives have never been part of India and they will never be a part of India.

Pakistan: “That is too obvious to ask.”

Why didn't Australia become part of Indonesia..

always love the videos. but i cant help but feel that there was a push to make this unneccesarely long. massive amounts of words that all keep saying the same things.

Because, it was never part of India, Indian als blame British for the partition. But they should thank Britain, India's current area how they got, because of British Raj.if it was like before, India wouldn't be like this big........

India is a british creation where as Sri lanka is a nation state of sinhalese people even the word ceylon derived from sinhale which means land of sinhalese

Srilanka not part of india.. From beginning..

It's a strange question, really. It implies that anyone who has a common culture or history has to be part of the same state. But the world is full of more examples of that not happening, than happening. Germany excludes tons of german people. Of course Hitler thought that this shouldn't be the case, which is why he invaded Austria...but he was being silly. The real question is why to force the rest of India to be a single state, instead of allowing it to separate into more appropriate smaller ones.

They're very different countries with different cultural, social and historical norms. Just because they're next to each other they can't be one country.

And they haven't "shitting on the road" culture😂😂😂

Having visited both as a tourist and having ancestry from both places, it seems that this was the right go. Despite being geographically close they are too culturally distinct. SL quote liberal, extremely conservative. They are more culturally distinct from one another as the USA and Mexico are

Because we are 2 different nations since like the beginning of time.

As a Tamil from South India. Its just because Srilanka was a dutch colony and it wasn't integrated with the British raj when it was seized during Napoleonic wars. The funny part is that Yemen was a part of British Raj not srilanka which was just stones away.

Sri Lanka is a Buddhist country with peaceful and friendlier people and very affordable. Only similarity is how they look. Let it be an indendent country.

INDIAN NATIONALIST ARE GOING TO CRY ABOUT THE MAP 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Tamil as shown in this video is not a historical community in Sri Lanka. In fact, a community called Tamil is a colonial creation. Because ancient Indians did not have linguistic identities but caste identities. Only the Europeans brought linguistic identities to this part of the world. Thanks to british orientalism a community with a linguistic identity called Tamil was created out of disparate caste groups with a mythical history narrative. Therefore Sinhalese and Tamils disagree about the history of the island. And that is the cause of the Sri Lankan conflict.

Until British colonize, even south india was not a part of noth india.

Interesting topic

Sri Lanka was never part of India.

Rawan Island ❤

8:13 *more than Sri Lanka perhaps, I’ve always wondered why was 🇲🇲Burma (now Myanmar) partitioned from 🇬🇧British India in 1937?* - as it was not only a part of India already but British India’s largest province!

Why why what's the problem hah?? Let us live as Sri Lankans...

Tamils already from Tamilnadu .Tamils never part of Sri Lanka History until 1505. Only westerners bring Tamils from India against Sinhales. I know you disagry with this pure trueth but it is the History .

This is like asking 'why is the UK not a part of France?' Edit: It's just a Joke

Because? Sri Lanka was established as an independent state after European colonialism. So in other words? The British didn't even want India to be big and powerful. Just like how Pakistan is not part of India after gaining Independence from the British after WW2. And not to mention Religion is still the big problem in the Indian Subcontinent. So there is no way India would get Pakistan and Sri Lanka and other nations in the Subcontinent to join India as one nation.

Fascinating! Thanks!

why was even this a question at the first place... its a separate country anyways

Next video : Why isn't Taiwan part of China?

Great video quality. I find it very intriguing that each colinizer period was approx 150 years in length. You can almost divide its periods in history as such. Maybe celebrate the 150th year of independence in 2098? For reference - 1505-1658: Potugal 1658-1796: Netherlands 1796-1948: UK

And why the Bahamas isn't part of USA?

I can't believe Knowledgia actually did a video on Sri Lanka. This is amazing. Thank you !

Dear Sri Lankans, you are better off without us. Sri Lanka have very less crime, cities are good. Very good healthcare ( I heard). Take advantage of your geography. Just stop your ethnic conflicts.

In addition to these, I'd like to add the fact that since around 600 BCE until the British colonists captured the whole island, no foreign nation managed to gain the control of the whole island. Indians, Portuguese and Dutch only managed to capture the parts of the island. There has always been a ruling monarchy of natives that has diligently protected our culture and fought against the invaders. There is a wide range of sources where you can see how Sri Lanka (Which had been referred in various names such as Thambapanni, Serandib and Taprobana) has been always considered as a separate sovereignty, ranging from the ancient writings of Xuanzang, Strabo and Ibn Battuta to more recent accounts from robert Knox, Fernão de Queiroz and Philippus Baldaeus

Even though our country is a small island, as Sri Lankans are really happy being independent❤. We have our own language, culture and natural resources that has been evolved for thousands of years.💯 (We would consider if we are asked to be part of countries like US, Canada, UK, Japan or Australia though 😁)

Sri Lanka (Ceylon) is an independent country ❤

Sri Lankans are stronger than Indians.

Good video.

The title should be - Why India is not a part of Sri Lanka? Let me see how much hate comment will I get from the dhotis!!😂😂😂

Before portuguese came , those Costal places were filled with sinhalese villages it was a part of kingdom of kandy, 90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was Brought here by portuguese , dutch , british to costal aria to work as slave workers time to time from india, for various slave purposes (before they were lower cast tamils in india , sakkiliyar, roddi,.. etc , who later became suicide attackers and were forced to do so by upper cast tamils ) after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese by colonizers then immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from south india and who didn' t even knew much about ceylon people or culture and british gave him higher possession in government than sinhalese becouse sinhalese were alway fighting for freedom against the british ) became registar general changed those indian tamils Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐 and read old portuguese , dutch colonial records 26 years of civil war was created by british , dutch and portuguese 500 years of colonialism and their slave labours outnumbered native people and disenfranchised the identity of vanni and north-eastern coastal living sinhalese.

Earlier today, I saw a map of India and I wonder why Sri lanka was not a part of it, so thanks a lot for answering the question so quickly

Majority of the Sri Lankans speak Sinhalese language which only exists in Sri Lanka. They have their own culture and traditions in the island. So, they would never be a part of India.

Until early 1960's, there was a natural thin strip of land above sea level, linking north of Sri Lanka with the south of India. People could really walk from one land to the other. Sometime in the 1960's, there was a very strong sea storm which flushed / interrupted that thin corridor.

Sinhalese have been living in this island for more than 2600 years unbroken with having inter marriage with "vaddas" Even today sinhalese language have many vadda language words ( ex: "ඇත්තො" , "ඇ" word from "vadda language" and only language with having word "ඇ" in the entire world and many more relations,...) Sinhalese built the Civilization In this land ..so sinhalese have every rights to claim the country than any other colonial slave migraters who brought by british , portuguese,.. were lower cust tamils from india, muslims , as their slave works as they have beed alway treated in india , Sinhalese fought against all those foreign invaders to protect this land By sacrificing their lives , familys ,... everything they had, More than anyone had ever done on this land 🙏

Why? Because we don't want it.

Support Sri Lanka from China!!

Sri Lanka vs India... Totally Different.. even in the trusts and believes..

This is completely wrong message and Sri Lanka is not belong to India; SL has own cultural and language which doesn’t excite in India. We respect our own minorities whose move from Indian Tamil.

I love my country uniqueness

Ceylon or Sri Lanka never been part of India. Sri Lanka is a free and beautiful country

Your map has a typo - it’s Maratha not Martha

# visitsrilanka ❤ from 🇱🇰 (Sri Lanka) Your garbage not for nature. # Protect Land and Sea of Sri Lanka #

8:05 - - What is shown on map is not correct, for that moment in time. When "British" India seceded into independent states, it was not "Pakistan" and "Bangladesh", it was only "Pakistan", with West Pakistan (Pakistan of today) and East Pakistan (Bangladesh). About ten years later, that country seceded into Pakistan and Bangladesh, after the latter wanted to be independent and survived a landing of a Pakistani army (from so-called West Pakistan), because it was helped by the Indian Army.

Because we DONT need to be

Because India is a creation of the British. There never was an India before the British. When the British created India, they did not add Sri Lanka to it. Very simple.

I can speak English, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, and a little French. If a county was established on culture, ethnic groups and beliefs, countries were going to be the size of Belgium. China, India, Russia and the US are both massive countries with territory and diverse culture. For example, there are nearly 100 different ethnic groups in Russia where people speak common language, Russia, but also speak their own languages to their family members. In China, there is also "Korean Chinese", "Russian Chinese" in its east part. Furthermore, the western part of China shared muslim as the middle Asia. This is also same for India, the northern India and the southern India are different in separate two linguistic groups. The west part is the place for Sikhism.

Why India isn't a part of Nepal?

Sri Lanka isn't part of India primarily because of its distinct cultural, historical, and political identity. Despite geographical proximity and historical connections, Sri Lanka has maintained its independence as a separate nation. Factors such as colonial history, ethnic composition, and geopolitical considerations have also contributed to Sri Lanka's status as a sovereign state separate from India. 🇱🇰

Excuse me!! Sri Lankan was never a part of India..it will not happen in future..we are only Sri Lankan 🇱🇰

For the same reason Taiwan isn't part of China!😊

Im from sri lanka and i ❤️ india, pakistan and nepal ❤️❤️

The main reason is all the sri lankan royal families from last 2500 years linked with Indiyan Royals. like Royals of Mauryan(most of Anuradhapura kings), Kalinga(Polonnaruwa), Lambakarana, Pandya, Nayakkar(Thelingu),..and many invasion was done by south and east Indians but no one could colonized the whole country. Sri lankan royala always tried to maintain Friendship with South Indian royals. and had royal marriage between...

You should make a video why Nepal and Bhutan were not the part of India.

its like why france isnt part of uklmao!!!!!!

අඩෝ අඩෝ මේ මරිසි එපා අපි පාඩුවෙ ඉන්නෙ හරිය අරව මේවට අපි අල්ලගන්ට එපා😅

Good video

ඉන්දියාවට වඩා ලස්සනට තිබ්බ අපේ රට DS ලා , ඩඩ්ලිලා, කොතලාවලලා කවදාවත් උඩරට සිංහලයන්ගෙ පාරම්පරික දෙය පරිස්සන්කරා, හොර බණ්ඩාරනායකලා=(නීලම්පෙරුමාල් ) වගේ සිංහල මිනිස්සුව ගොනාට අන්දලා , දේපළටික කොල්ල කෑවෙ නෑ , සේරම "දන්දීපල්ලා" කිව්වා , දකුණු ඉන්දියාවේ සරම ජාතික ඇදුම කරලා , සිංහල නායකයින්ට සරම් ඇන්දුවා "මිෂනාරි" බාලිකා පාසලකින් 8ටේ පන්තියට අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබූ "සිරිමා" කියන මෝඩ ගෑණි 1971 වෙනකොටත් සිංහලේ (Ceylon ) කියල තිබ්බ අපේ රට ශ්‍රීලංකාවක් කරලා අපිව කොහෙද යන ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයො කරා😈 රට අස්තාවර උනා, ඊටපස්සෙ ඒ ලංකාව කියන ඉන්දියාවෙ නම රැකගන්න අව්රුදු 30ක් LTTE එකත් එක්ක යුද්ධය කරන්න උනා ,JVP එක විප්ලව කරන්න ගත්තා ,ජීවිත ලක්ෂ ගණනින් නැතිඋනා ,අන්තිමට අපි කොහෙද යන ශ්‍රීලාංකිකයො උනා, 🤬🤔😥😥😥මේක රාවණාගෙ රට ලංකාව උනා🤣🤔😥 1971 චෞර ඉඩම් පනත් ගෙනල්ලා කොල්වින් ආර් ද සිල්වයි, N.M පෙරේරයි එකතුවෙලා, අපේ රටේ මඩුවන් වල දිසාවට, බින්තැන්නේ රටේ රාල.., වැනි උඩ රට සිංහල නායකයින්ට අයිති වෙලා තිබ්බ ඉඩ කඩම් සියල්ල රජයට පවර ගත්තා ( දැන් ඒ ඉඩම් වල රජයෙන් දෙමළ , මුස්ලිම් ගම්මාන හදලා පදිංචි කරනවා🤣😥) දිර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සෙ පාරම්පරිකව ජීවත්උන සිංහල මිනිස්සුම්ගෙ ඉඩම් දේපළ සියල්ල කපටි කමින් පවරා ගෙන සිංහල ජාතියෙ පිය උරුමයත් අපිට අහිමි කරපු , ලස්සන අපේ රට අපායක් කරපු කපටි ඊරිසියාකර කාලකණ්ණි මාක්ස් වාදීන්ට අහූඋන ගොං ගෑණි🤮 අන්තිමට ඉන්දියාවෙන් වතුවැඩට ආපු තොන්ඩමන්ලා අද private ජෙට් අයිත්, ඉඩම් විෂාල ගණනක් හිමි බිලියන පතියන් වෙලා🤔

Short Answer: Sri Lanka came from Austronesia (according to me, not him)

Sri Lanka is a separate country from India due to historical, cultural, and geographical reasons. It has its own distinct identity, language, and traditions. While the two nations share some cultural similarities and historical connections, Sri Lanka has its own sovereignty and governance separate from India.as a Sri Lankan we all ways love our Independence

Sri Lanka was not a part of India and never will be 😊

If u know change MAP official map includes PAK in it 😁 lol just joking great video 🌞

Sri lanka has never been a part of india since its existence and never will be

Sri Lanka has never been a part of India and you are talking about only 600 years back. there is a huge history and I would like to welcome all to study it also I want to say if Sri Lanka is going to merge with India, this beautiful island going to be destroyed. world needs diversity and why merge so powerful two cultures. people never think to do it. the world needs more colors.