reunion island tamils
Topic started by curious (@ btce4.156ce.singa.pore.net) on Sat Dec 1 08:25:35 .
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i will like like to know more on the tamils of the reunion islands. any info provided will be appreciated.
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- From: (@ h66-59-174-253.gtconnect.net)
on: Sun Dec 2 20:26:37
http://www.cybercable.tm.fr/~regnier/reunion.htm
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Reunion
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- From: SABARIGOWSHICK .H (@ )
on: Wed Nov 19 10:12:39
Respected sirs, Iam from INDIA on12.1.03 MR.SANEMOUGAMIKALAI SITESELVAME vistes our contry and he told that reunion people wanted to learn TAMIL, HINDU POOJAS,EPICS, TAMIL CULTURL. we are ready to teach these things. but we don't know that person adress .so I request you to trace that adress. Thanking you
- From: brittany (@ )
on: Wed Sep 1 16:40:01
hi
- From: brittany (@ )
on: Wed Sep 1 16:40:07
hi
- From: Raman (@ ppp82-2.dsl-chn.eth.net)
on: Wed Sep 8 08:52:12 EDT 2004
Basically there are 3 different groups of Tamils living in Reunion.
When Re-union was under French Rule in 18th Century it was called Bourbon. Ship loads of Tamil people from Pondicherry and karaikal were carried to Bourbon to reform the land and cultivation. Therre are records in Govt Archivied Dept in Pondicherry about the Ship name, number of people travelled etc. Most of these people last roots in Pondicherry. Many of them also forgot tamil.
- From: Raman (@ ppp82-2.dsl-chn.eth.net)
on: Wed Sep 8 08:52:41 EDT 2004
2nd Group of people are, the Erstwhile Servents of French rulers ion Pondicherry ,who feared that they would be ill traeted in the hands of Indian Govt, were taken to Reunion and offered Job in adminstration. Most of them still have relatives in Pondicherry.
3rd Group of people are the migrant workers like Poojaris, musicians etc who went there chasing fortune.
One interesting news on Reunion Tamils is that .the Total Tamil people (most of them originated from Pondicherry) in Reunion is about 25% of current population of Pondicherry. No other State in India has so huge percentage of it's population living in abroad. I my self belong to Pondicherry and would like to conduct a better research with interested person in Reunion.
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