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    Salagama (also known as Saliya) is a Sinhalese caste found mostly in the southern coastal areas of Sri Lanka. The community was traditionally associated...
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  • of Salagama people landed from Madampe(Amabaangoda) and settled in Waskaduwa,Pothupitiya, Deshastra and Kalamulla. Therefore, Karawa and Salagama conflicts...
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    India leading to the emergence of three new Sinhalese caste groups - the Salagama, the Durava and the Karava. The Sinhalese have a stable birth rate and...
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    CE. This led to the emergence of three new Sinhalese caste groups: the Salagama, the Durava and the Karava. The Tamil migration and assimilation continued...
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  • CE. They along with other southern Sinhalese castes such as Karave and Salagama have played an important role in the historically left political and right...
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  • origins, whereas all other South India-derived castes such as Karave, Salagama, Durave and Berava do not emphasise their Tamil links as part of their...
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  • Bathgama, Deva, Nekathi, Bodhivansha, Rajaka, kumbal, Hunu, Durava, Karava, Salagama and Navandanna, with smaller castes being absorbed to the larger castes...
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    to the emergence of three new Sinhalese caste groups: The "Radala" the Salagama, the Durava and the Karava. The Hindu migration and assimilation continued...
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    front of some names of the Salagama sub caste "Hewapanne"(militia) originated from the Agampadi soldiers, who married Salagama Hewapanne women, Large scale...
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    the Karava-speaking Sinhalese, the Durava, the Demala Gattara and the Salagama castes of Sri Lanka.[citation needed] An early emigrant group that is not...
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