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Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon) is a pear-shaped island off of the southern coast of India, which obtained its independence from Great Britain in 1948. Sri Lanka has a Buddhist majority, and the Tamils are in a Hindu minority and have been fighting for their own independence.[1]

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