High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The modern Sri Lankan Karava are the largest Dravidian caste in Sri Lanka, outnumbering Tamils of Sri Lanka fourfold. (The Govigama Sinhalese are of Aryan origin.) Modern DNA evidence disproves the Arya-Dravida divide. Traditionally set below the Govigama caste, the Karava of colonial times rapidly allied themselves to the Colonial powers (Portuguese, Dutch and English) who ruled Sri Lanka. Conversion to Christianity was a common phenomenon to castes desiring upward mobility in this era. Also, the interior regions fell to the Europeans much later. In the following centuries the Karava created a semi-modern folklore of heraldry, etymology and traditions that attempt to establish them at the apex of the Sri Lankan caste structure. They have on occasion also succeeded. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности....

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