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A research proposal addressing the large Sri Lankan Tamil community in the GTA, its understandings of food in relation to other people and surroundings, as well as day to day maintenance of health. The paper discusses how some ideas are extremely old bequests of Tamil civilization in India, while others owe to centuries of life in the Sri Lankan north or other adaptations under colonialism and with emigration to Canada. The paper explains that food is a health commodity as well as a social process.

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"Relatively little has been published in Canada on the now large Sri Lankan Tamil community that has taken form in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) since the early 1980s. From 25,000 that arrived in 1984, a steady increase has been seen towards Toronto's stature as the largest `overseas Sri Lankan Tamil city' within the War-induced Diaspora. Usual references imply a presence of 220,000 Sri Lankan Tamils in the GTA with informal estimates referring to a Canadian total that may have reached 375,000. What material exists tends to focus on the Tamils as members of a..."

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