மலையக தமிழர்கள்Malaiyaha Tamils — Sri Lanka's Up-Country Community

Malaiyaha Tamils are descendants of workers brought from South India by the British in the nineteenth century to labour on Ceylon's coffee, and later tea, plantations. Stripped of citizenship at independence by the Ceylon Citizenship Act No. 18 of 1948, restored across decades ending only in 2003, they remain by UN and academic assessment among the poorest and most structurally excluded communities in Sri Lanka. TLTE reads their file under the Parallel Sovereignty doctrine: shared architectural wound, distinct historical file, separate strategies. The archive never solicits their alignment — it names the reserved civic seat, always.