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The Jaffna Students’ Congress was founded in 1924 and renamed the Jaffna Youth Congress (JYC) in 1926 . It had its base amongst educated middle-class Tamil youth, especially and young graduates from Indian Universities and from the newly founded University College, Colombo . It drew enthusiasm and morale boosts from visits of leading Indian personalities. In 1927 , the JYC invited Indian independence movement leader Gandhi to visit Jaffna . In 1931 Kamaladevi Chattopadyaya addressed the opening session of the All-Ceylon Youth Congress, and was said to have taken Jaffna by storm. Like the Indian National Congress in India , the causes the JYC advocated were secularism, a non-sectarian Ceylonese nationalism and independence from Britain. For this reason it enjoyed much respect from Sinhalese intellectuals in the South. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike addressed the Youth Congress sessions, advocating for the first time a federal constitution for Ceylon. The JYC led a successful boycott of the first State Council elections in Jaffna in 1931 , arguing that the Donoughmore reforms did not concede enough self-government. REFERENCES UTHR(J), SOME MILESTONES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TAMIL POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS accessed 3 November 2005 . Santasilan Kadirgamar, Jaffna Youth Radicalism - the 1920s and 30s, ICES accessed 3 November 2005 . |
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