In 1949 a new Tamil political party, named the Federal Party, was formed and was led by S. Ponnambalam, passed a new act called the Ceylon Citizenship Act which disenfranchised the Indian Tamil plantation workers Though Ponnambalam did not vote for all the bills pertaining to the Ceylon citizenship act (including the offending bill), his silence in parliament made the Tamil public believe that he was not interested in Indian Tamil rights. Sri Lanka achieved independence from the British in 1948 and in the same year the government of Sri Lanka, with the acceptance vote from G.G. It was this development that made way for the development of the Tamil political organization called the All Ceylon Tamil Congress headed by G. As a result, the Tamils started to develop communal consciousness and began to think of themselves as needing to be represented by Tamil leadership. British Governor William Manning, who arrived in Ceylon in 1919, created a reformed legislative council in 1921 and actively encouraged communal thinking in the legislative council. The United Kingdom gained control of the small island of Sri Lanka, in 1815 and administratively unified the island with a legislative council in 1833 with three Europeans and one each for Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils and Burghers.
The name is derived from the ancient Tamil name for Sri Lanka, Eelam. Tamil Eelam has no official status or recognition by any other state or authority. Tamil Eelam will become a reality in not too far future, which aims to realise accountability of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide committed by Sri Lanka against Tamil minority, said Rudrakumaran Visvanathan, the 'Prime Minister' of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE). Tamil Eelam (Tamil: தமிழீழம், tamiḻ īḻam, generally rendered outside Tamil-speaking areas as தமிழ் ஈழம்,Sinhala: දෙමල ඊලාම්, demaḻa īḻaam, as referred to in the south)is the name given by certain Tamil groups in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora to the state which they aspire to create in the north and east of Sri Lanka.
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