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The Bibiles of Bibile: A Sinhalese-Wedda Aristocratic Family – Ranil Bibile\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

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RACIAL HISTORY OF A SINHALESE-WEDDA\u00a0 ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

From the papers of\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Baron Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Who visited Ceylon, Bibile, and the Bibile Walauwa in 1927 And obtained the family history from\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rate Mahattaya of Welassa\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles William Bibile\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

English Translation of Bibile materials (Eickstedt)1:<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u201eRassengeschichte einer singhalesisch- weddaischen<\/span>
\nAdelsfamilie\u201c<\/span>
\nvon Dr. Egon Frhrn. v. Eickstedt, M\u00fcnchen<\/span>
\n(Aus den Ergebnissen der Indien\u2010Expedi on des Staatlichen<\/span>
\nForschungsins tuts f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde zu Leipzig)<\/span><\/p>\n

English Translation of Bibile materials (Eickstedt)1: \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201eRassengeschichte einer singhalesisch- weddaischen Adelsfamilie\u201c von Dr. Egon Frhrn. v. Eickstedt, M\u00fcnchen\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

(Aus den Ergebnissen der Indien-Expedition des Staatlichen Forschungsinstituts f\u00fcr\u00a0 V\u00f6lkerkunde zu Leipzig)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Racial history of a Sinhalese-Wedda Aristocratic Family\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If two populations live close to or even mix up with each other for a longer period of time, mixed\u00a0 marriages are inevitable to occur, and this, necessarily, had also a considerable impact on the\u00a0 cultural expressions of the resp. more civilized nation. Soaking up the mentality of another\u00a0 people leads to a reshuffling and tensions within one\u00b4s own nature. This might be particularly\u00a0 the case if there is a considerable distance between the two populations in terms of their cultural\u00a0 habitus and also, in case the more primitive gets the opportunity to infiltrate the higher levels of\u00a0 the more cultured people. Examples from the history of great nations like Romans, Arabs or\u00a0 medieval Portuguese show that such racially determined biological impacts on the cultural\u00a0 history of certain nations and social strata are not as rare as one might possibly expect,\u00a0 considering the extrinsic similarity of the respective cultural complexes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Particularly interesting, but much lesser known is it, that these phenomena can also be found in\u00a0 India – the country of allegedly rather rigid caste systems. The severe caste mentality of the Indian conqueror people knew numerous exceptions, and these have strongly influenced the\u00a0 biological consequences of social seclusion. Within the whole large complex of territories\u00a0 occupied by Indian monarchies, the relationships between the Aryan or Dravidian master\u00a0 peoples and the oldest, i.e. the Weddoid strata of society are exempted \u2013 in surprising like mindedness \u2013 from the customary integration into caste hierarchies. The most ancient lords of\u00a0 the land were somehow standing outside the caste system and not regarded as impure by the\u00a0 higher castes of the conquerors. This created the possibility for blood of the always very\u00a0 primitive aborigines to seep in \u2013 a possibility made much more difficult for the low castes of their\u00a0 own civilized population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reliable evidence for such blending processes between primitive and culture people which\u00a0 could certainly find the interest of racial as well as cultural science is currently almost absent\u00a0 from literature . Each and every such case, due to the differences in somatic and psychological\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

disposition of both components, would needs have to be examined and judged separately.\u00a0 Thus, a vast and productive field for racial studies opens here.The following modest notes will\u00a0 select only a few single cases from the author\u00b4s most familiar field of work. However, these\u00a0 modest notes have one big advantage: the genealogical and historical source material on\u00a0 which they are based are well guaranteed \u2013 a rather large part of them has been made available\u00a0 to me due to the kind interest of my friend C. W. Bibile, R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmaya of Welasse, and I\u00a0 would like to use this opportunity to once more express my gratitude for his interest and\u00a0 cooperation. Due to the special nature of the material it became necessary to check it on the\u00a0 spot, that is why I spent my few days of rest after an exhausting crossing of the jungle woods of\u00a0 East Ceylon with writing down of these data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the distinguished Sinhalese families of the Uva district ( Eastern Ceylon) with their\u00a0 extreme proudness of tradition who for many centuries have served the oldest dynasty of the\u00a0 world, several are boasting of a direct descendence from the old aborigines, the Wedda. The\u00a0 rigid and arrogant caste spirit of the old Sinhalese \u00e9lites just in Kandy (the Ceylonese highland,\u00a0 independent till 1815), who didn\u00b4t even regard the inhabitants of the western lowlands with its\u00a0 European colonies completely as their equals, indeed treated the Weddan blood in former\u00a0 times as coequal. In our times, however, this is true of the old Kandyan families in certain limits\u00a0 only, and it is even less true of the nobility in the Western lowlands. These nowadays regard\u00a0 the Weddas as not more than a last heap of miserable \u201csavages\u201d on the verge of dying out.\u00a0 Yet in the Eastern parts of the island, the esteem for the Weddas is still directly showing up in\u00a0 common behaviour: the district chief, clad in silken sarong, has to receive orders in standing\u00a0 while the dirty and almost naked Wedda is asked to squat down. \u201cThe Weddas are of high\u00a0 caste.\u201d This behaviour is due to the far-reaching independence that even now is, or has to be,\u00a0 admitted to the few surviving Wedda families, and it is also due to their former position at the\u00a0 court and in the army of Sinhalese kings. This early influence of the Wedda chiefs was based\u00a0 on the great, and often deciding, importance the Wedda troups had for the power and existence\u00a0 of the Sinhalese kingdom as the following family histories amply show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even in th early years of the rule of King Rajasimha I. (1571-1592) the later 18 Wedda districts\u00a0 of Ruh\u00fana \u2013 today\u00b4s \u00d9va- and Battical\u00f3a district \u2013 were independent from Kandy, while the\u00a0 northern Wedda districts had already for a long time been under nominal Kandyan rule. The\u00a0 occupation of the country by Rajasinha led some dissatisfied chiefs to emigrate. According to a\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

reliable tradition written down in document form already at the time of his grandson, M \u00e1 h a K\u00a0 \u00e1 i r a W \u00e1 n n i y a of Mor\u00e1ne W\u00e1tta<\/span>1<\/span> was also among these dissatisfied persons. He had a\u00a0 kind of permanent residence at the foot of the Mor\u00e1ne mountains in Bint\u00e9nne, the remnants of\u00a0 which are shown even today,. After a long stay in Dam\u00e1negama, in the far North-East of today\u00b4s\u00a0 Nilg\u00e1la K\u00f3rale, he left his eldest childless son there and with his second son K u m \u00e1 r a W \u00e1 n\u00a0 n i y a of Wel\u00e1ssa <\/span>2 <\/span>returned to the area of today\u00b4s Bibile. There must have happened a\u00a0 complete reconciliation between king and Wedda prince, because soon after, the names of\u00a0 both sons are found among the names of guardians of the royal treasure. P i e r i s, in his\u00a0 voluminous history of the Portuguese Era in Ceylon <\/span>3<\/span>, relying on the original old Sinhalese\u00a0 source Par\u00e1ngi H\u00e1tane, describes the Wedda as in the following way:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c And yet these backward people\u2026.. were among the most faithful servants of the King\u00b4s\u00a0 treasures, twelve of them being chosen to be the custodians and invested with silver girdles and\u00a0 canes embossed with silver, and a special dress to distinguish them from their fellows. They\u00a0 would stealthily enter the palace at night and interview the King when they desired orders on\u00a0 any matter affecting their charge.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From this report the great independence on the one side, and on the other the eminent trust in\u00a0 the Weddas who even today are regarded as reliable is clearly evident. The same can also be\u00a0 inferred from another tradition, describing the immediately following unfortunate historical\u00a0 period of the Sinhalese rule:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201d When pressed hard by the invasions of the Portuguese which were soon to follow, it was to\u00a0 them that the King used to entrust the Queens, and they would shelter them in temporary huts,\u00a0 brightly adorned with greenery according to Sinhalese custom, constructed in dense forest\u00a0 which stretched for fifty miles between Wel\u00e1sse and the first range of Battical\u00f3a hills, a region\u00a0 into which the Portuguese never succeeded in penetrating.\u201d<\/span>4<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1 M \u00e1 h a means \u201ethe Great, the Elder\u201d; K \u00e1 i r a is even now a widely met Wedda name; W \u00e1 n n i y a is the\u00a0 medieval term for chief and up to this day in favourite use as title, and M o r \u00e1 n e is the name of the most\u00a0 distinguished Wedda clan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2 Wel\u00e1ssa means \u201eland of the thousand stripes of ricefields\u201c, a very ancient name pointing to former wealth and it\u00a0 is used even today to denominate the district of the R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmaya of Bibile, although for already thousand\u00a0 years the land is covered by dense forest jungle.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3 P i e r i s: Ceylon, the Portuguese Era\u2026.. 1505.1558. Vol.I, Colombo 1913, 327\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

4 Cf. P i e r i s , op. cit. I, 329<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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In times of emergency the Wedda land had been the last resort of Sinhalese kings. When\u00a0 after countless atrocities Kandy, too, fell into the hands of the Portuguese, the king was forced\u00a0 to flee:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c But with his family, his juwels of gold and his gems, his slaves\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and records and his treasure chests,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

K i n g S e n e r a t s o u g h t r e f u g e i n t h e P a t t u o f t h e W e d d a h s, for his glory was dimmed and his merit had failed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And the heart of the man melted as wax before the flame of the fierce Parangi foe.\u201d<\/span>5<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kum\u00e1ra W\u00e1nniya, the younger son of the Wedda chief M\u00e1ha K\u00e1ira W\u00e1nniya of Mor\u00e1ne who\u00a0 had gone to Bibile, got married to the daughter of another Wedda chief, whose name is not\u00a0 known. Under the command of different Sinhalese kings his two sons participated in several\u00a0 campaigns against the Portuguese and later on against the Dutch and were awarded the title\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

and office of a Mudiy\u00e1nse <\/span>6<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

by king S\u00e9nerat ( 1604-1632, see above). At the same time, both\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
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brothers were simultaneously, i.e. on legal grounds at first the elder, J a y a s \u00fa n d a r a M u\u00a0 d i y \u00e1 n s e (see family tree), entrusted with the hereditary fiefdom of the villages Bibile and\u00a0 Alanmulla, and a royal document was issued to confirm it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This royal document, written by steelpen on strips of prepared T\u00e1lipot leaves, is today preserved\u00a0 in the archive of the British Registry in Badulla under Nr.5, a reprint being in possesion of the\u00a0 author. Even nowadays the village Bibile belongs to the progeny of the old Wedda prince and\u00a0 the lines of this note are written in the Wal\u00e1ue (aristocratic residence) of his great-grandson in\u00a0 Bibile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The following details, being of interest for the racial history from the early period of the Bibile\u00a0 family, may be given here. In the Arang\u00e1 Palace in Weg\u00e1ma, \u201cwhere the daughter of the\u00a0 Battical\u00f3a W\u00e1nniya was the Queen of the King\u201d (evidently, the king had different wives in his\u00a0 different palaces), a Bibile and a Kaud\u00e9lle Mudiy\u00e1nse had the command over the royal guards\u00a0 (again a typical Wedda office!). From this report we also see that the wife of the king (we are\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

5 P\u00e1rangi H\u00e1tane: cited after P i e r i s, op. cit. I, 417. P\u00e1rangi = Portuguese.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

6 In peace times, the Mudiy\u00e1nse were higher officers of the palace guards, while in war times they were charged\u00a0 with deploying the people of their fiefdom capable of bearing arms and with marching against the enemy in lead\u00a0 of them. This is, so to speak, a typical Wedda office, but clad in a high position, connected with dignity and\u00a0 fiefdom, both usually granted to especially excellent, but mostly Sinhalese nobles only.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

talking about Wimalla Dh\u00e1rma S\u00fariya I., 1592- 1604, the 172<\/span>nd <\/span>ruler of the Sinhalese) had been\u00a0 the daughter of a Wedda prince, i.e. the W\u00e1nniya of Battical\u00f3a, and that, consequently, also\u00a0 Wedda blood rose up into the royal family.<\/span>7 <\/span>The Sinhalese chronicle further states that during\u00a0 the reign of King S\u00e9nerat (see above), when he resided in Mayang\u00e1ne, a Bibile Mudiy\u00e1nse was\u00a0 appointed as one of the guards for the young prince T\u00edkiri B\u00e1ndara (the later king Rajasinha II.,\u00a0 1632 \u2013 1684). When he himself (i.e. Rajasinha II, M.S.) during his reign recaptured the fort of\u00a0 Battical\u00f3a from the Portuguese, a Bibile Mudiy\u00e1nse who had excelled in battle was endowed\u00a0 with two Portuguese as his slaves \u2013 a fact that is also not without interest in terms of racial\u00a0 science. Furthermore, to the great favour that just the Bibile Weddas enjoyed at the royal court\u00a0 can the fact be traced back, that it had been the daughter of an Urulew\u00e1tte Adigar \u2013 i.e. of a\u00a0 senior minister from an ancient Kandyan family \u2013 who, on royal command, had been married to\u00a0 the Jayas\u00fandara Mudiy\u00e1nse of Bibile. In any case, the reliable and influential Wedda prince,\u00a0 himself belonging to the most distinguished – the \u201croyal\u201d- Wedda clan, should in this way be\u00a0 bound more closely to the throne. With the same purpose in mind, he might have given his\u00a0 sister into marriage to the court noble Pubb\u00e1re B\u00e1ndara.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Anthropologically speaking, these marriages are important because they vouch for when and\u00a0 how noble Sinhalese blood got into the purely old-Weddid Jayas\u00fandara and, vice versa, Wedda\u00a0 blood was received into the Sinhalese noble family of the Pubb\u00e1re B\u00e1ndara. Thus, the\u00a0 descendants of both families were both half Weddoid, half Sinhalese and, biologically speaking,\u00a0 both descendants of M\u00e1ha K\u00e1ira W\u00e1nniya. This is important because with the childless\u00a0 grandchildren of Jayas\u00fandara, the first male line dies out, and Pubb\u00e1re B\u00e1ndara K\u00e1ragahawela\u00a0 (also a grandson of Jayas\u00fandara) who by cousin marriage (through which no fresh blood from\u00a0 any side comes into the family) continued the old family tree, biologically as well as legally, by\u00a0 adopting these three childless grandchildren (see family tree).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, this old Wedda family had preserved its purity for three generations and in the fourth to\u00a0 fifth generation had become half Sinhalese. In the seventh generation the male line again\u00a0 extinguished, but was continued biologically and legally by cousin marriage of L\u00f3ku M\u00e9nika with\u00a0 Kah\u00e1ttam H\u00ednbanda. Because the husband went over to settle in the house of his wife, this\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

7 This was by no means the first time. Already Wij\u00e9ya, the banished viceroy of Gujerat in Northern India, who later\u00a0 became the first Sinhalese king (543-505 B.C.), had married a Wedda princess. Her and her children\u00b4s unfortunate\u00a0 fate has been recorded in the Great Chronicle of Ceylon\u201d(cf. W. G e i g e r, The Mahavamsa, London 1912, Chapter\u00a0 VII, pp. 55-61) and is mentioned also in most of the popular history books on Ceylon.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

marriage was called B\u00ednna-Ehe. Then,in the sixth till eighth generation only Sinhalese names are found among the married-into families. But because almost exclusively all these families\u00a0 belong to the old nobility of Eastern Ceylon it seems quite unlikely that they should n o t\u00a0 contain Wedda blood. It merely can\u00b4t be made out to what degree this was the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the last century, that has seen the final decline of the Wedda people and at the same time\u00a0 the downfall of the old kingdom of Kandy (probably not coincidentally), among the higher\u00a0 families such kind of intermingling with the Weddas seems to have ceased. More and more \u2013\u00a0 with continually improving economic conditions – Sinhalese settlers inserted themselves in the\u00a0 old Wedda territories. At first only being labourers for the Weddas, soon they easily got\u00a0 ownership rights in the vast jungle areas where land was so cheap. And although nowadays\u00a0 both parties deny any mixed marriage, anthropological inspection, the Registry lists and casual\u00a0 crossexamination test to the contrary. But the new mixture seems to have concerned only the\u00a0 lower strata, i.e. the lower Wedda clans and the lower Sinhalese castes. There is no doubt that\u00a0 such a kind of mixture has existed earlier, too, if only not in such relatively large scale as it is\u00a0 nowadays happening among the remaining tiny Wedda groups. The race mixtures during more\u00a0 than two millennia easily explain why, as it was evident during my expedition, a unification of\u00a0 the archaic Wedda features in one individuum today (and also during the whole period from\u00a0 which we have pictures of Wedda people) has been extremely rare.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on the report of a mixed race Wedda, Lewis <\/span>8 <\/span>describes the fusion of Weddas in the\u00a0 Westminster Abbey area which formerly had around the old G\u00f3vind-H\u00e9la in the M\u00e1ha-W\u00e9di R\u00e1ta (Great-Vedda-Country) been a main area of the Wedda: \u201c\u2026.his grandparents belonged to\u00a0 a clan\u2026.who lived in a wild state in the Lenama forests, but in time those who survived of this\u00a0 clan became reconciled to their Sinhalese neighbours, and at last came to associate with them\u00a0 and ultimately, by marrying and intermarrying, they abandoned their forest life and settled in and\u00a0 aroud Salawe, or Hallowa Rata.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Among papers recently shown to the author by chance in the Registry in Bulup\u00edtiya (N\u00edlgala\u00a0 K\u00f3rale) were several Sinhalese-Wedda mixed people listed by their names. For a systematic\u00a0 study of this process of intermingling it would be now the most opportune time and also a last\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

8 Lewis, F.: Notes on an exploration in Eastern Uva\u2026Journ. Ceylon Branch R.Asiat.Soc. 1914,XXIII, No. 67, pp.276- 293, 10 Taf., Colombo 1916<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

possibility. Unfortunately time and financial means of my expedition prevented working in this\u00a0 direction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The family tree of T a l d \u00e9 n a M \u00e9 n i ka might serve as an example how the old noble\u00a0 families of Eastern Ceylon are interspersed with Wedda blood from the long lucky times of this\u00a0 people and, moreover, how the marriages in the country itself \u2013 which were absolutely normal \u2013 can be taken in a very limited way only to represent a further racial sinhalesization of lineage.\u00a0 She is the wife of William R. Bibile, the head of the ninth generation of the lineage and the\u00a0 mother of Charles W. Bibile, the current family head, who, like his father, grandfather and great\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

grandfather, holds the office of R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmaya (District Official or Administrator) of W\u00e9lassa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is also a Wedda chief appearing as the primogenitor of the family of Tald\u00e9na M\u00e9nika:\u00a0 N\u00e1dena Kum\u00e1ra V\u00e1nni Unn\u00e9he.<\/span>9 <\/span>His office had been near B\u00f3kotuwew\u00e1tte in W\u00e1ttek\u00e9lle, in the\u00a0 high mountains north from B\u00e1dulla (the provincial capital of Uva), where nowadays since long\u00a0 no Weddas are living any more. He got married to Ponn\u00e1ra B\u00e1ndara Galag\u00f3da, a girl from a\u00a0 noble family (as the name Galag\u00f3da tells, i.e. roughly \u201cvon Felseneck\u201d). She had been \u201cat the\u00a0 court of Kum\u00e1ra S\u00ednha, Prince of Uva, at B\u00e1dulla\u201d<\/span>10 <\/span>and should therefore have been a kind of\u00a0 lady-in-waiting, married to an officer of the Palace Guard.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The names of the offsprings of this couple, the First Parents of the Tald\u00e9na family, are\u00a0 immediately and exclusively Sinhalese. This is regularly true for all cases known to me, and\u00a0 this makes genealogical research more difficult. The extremely long names and richly adorned\u00a0 titles here, mostly shortened without changing the meaning, are an additional difficulty, as is\u00a0 also the extremely frequent use of the same first names. But again, this latter circumstance\u00a0 makes the titles valuable for identification, although even they are rather variable and changed\u00a0 several times during the lifetime of a person. Sometimes, in the closest family circle, individuals\u00a0 bearing the same name \u2013 and this is happens rather often with siblings \u2013 were distinguished by\u00a0 <\/span>loku <\/span>= big and <\/span>punchi <\/span>or <\/span>hin <\/span>= small, as can be seen from the family trees. That the personal\u00a0 names had played a rather minor role could already been inferred from the historical data for\u00a0 the Bibile family, where all chronicles only talk of \u201cthe Bibile Mudiy\u00e1nse\u201d. This genealogical\u00a0 problem holds also nowadays true for the Weddas. Very often they are not able, even with their\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

9 V\u00e1nni = W\u00e1nniya = Wedda chief, Unn\u00e9he = general title, such as \u201eHis highness\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10 Genealogical table of the Bibile family, p. 52, M.S.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

best and honest will, to exactly tell the name of their wife, their mother or just their own name,\u00a0 and they sometimes are only properly determing it after having asked their fellow tribals. It\u00a0 often also happens that they change their names: thus, e.g., the Vid\u00e1ne (chief) of H\u00e9nn\u00e9bedde,\u00a0 Porom\u00f3la<\/span>11 <\/span>simply took the name of the first husband of his second wife, i.e. S\u00edta W\u00e1nniya.<\/span>12 <\/span>On\u00a0 the other hand, they recount for you subito and without hesiting the most complicated degrees\u00a0 of relationship \u2013 this is because they represent for a Wedda the real names for the person he\u00a0 has to deal with.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Apart from the features of name-giving described above, the ancient chronicles offer another\u00a0 difficulty, namely an indifference towards exact dating. In the documents, the historicity of\u00a0 events is always fixed by geographical, not by chronological orientation. The place where the\u00a0 king or fiefholder stayed and the local circumstances of previous or contemporary events play\u00a0 the preeminent role. Even recently, a priest could at once indicate the name and residence of\u00a0 the king under whose rule his dagoba had been built, when I asked him \u2013 but he could not give\u00a0 me any hint at the date.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is why any exact chronological data are absent from the family tree of Tald\u00e9na\u00a0 M\u00e9nika. The only reference point is again Kum\u00e1ra S\u00ednha holding court in B\u00e1dulla, on which\u00a0 event I currently don\u00b4t have any detailed information. The only possibility to approximately\u00a0 determine the date of the Sinhalese mixing with the old Wedda tribe is by counting the number\u00a0 of generations. According to the pedigree it dates back four generations. Mrs. Tald\u00e9na M\u00e9nika\u00a0 lived from 1869 till 1919. If we take 25 years for one Ceylonese generation, the racial mixing of\u00a0 Sinhalese and Wedda people may have started around the year 1769, that means, in the\u00a0 second half of the 18<\/span>th <\/span>century. The descendents of this family continue to live in B\u00e1dulla up till\u00a0 now.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is evident that these old families whose members had been Diss\u00e1was (Province chiefs) and\u00a0 R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmayas (District chiefs), are deeply rooted in the land. Due to the excellent intellectual\u00a0 and human qualities by which a great deal of the family members are excelling, due also to\u00a0 their love of the country, their impartiality and loyalty to their duty they are, even in our times,\u00a0 valuable administration bodies of the British government. A letter of a high British officer, dated\u00a0 March 4<\/span>th <\/span>1913 and addressed to the R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmaya William R. Bibile can serve as\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

11 Good photo in C.and B. Seligmann: The Weddas, Cambridgen1911, Table VII\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

12 Good photos of him found in Seligmann, op.cit., Table V-VI\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

interesting evidence, because it acknowledges and at the same time admires \u201cthe strong\u00a0 feudal ties\u201d that connect this family to the land.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this connection I might also touch upon an important and for the Bibile family fatal event\u00a0 because it is related to the problem of the cultural-biological position of the Wedda \u2013 the\u00a0 Kandyan Rebellion on which unfortunately an in depth historical study is lacking up till now. It\u00a0 started in 1817 in the Uva province which until the beginning of British rule of 1815 had not yet\u00a0 experienced any domination by foreigners, and was organized by the Diss\u00e1wa of Bad\u00falla. The\u00a0 execution of the British resident by arrows of Wedda troups at the road from Bad\u00falla to Bibile \u2013 nowadays there is a memorial on the spot \u2013 was the signal for a general uprising. At this\u00a0 occasion the Wedda had been \u2013 and for the last time at that! \u2013 auxiliary troops of the Kandyans.\u00a0 According to a popular tradition, about which for understandable reasons the world will never\u00a0 get correct details any more, the young R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmaya Hinbanda of Bibile with his Weddas is\u00a0 said to have played a leading role at the execution. Long after the uprising had been\u00a0 oppressed in the Northern old Kandyan mountain districts, the fights continued in Uva, roughly\u00a0 until about 1822. The province was completely devastated. The Bibile family finally flew to the\u00a0 wild mountaineous region of the Eastern inner jungles where the Weddas of the old Mor\u00e1ne\u00a0 clan \u2013 relatives of them, as tradition has it -dwelled on the Danig\u00e1la rock. The family was forced\u00a0 to purchase its return at the price of about 4\/5<\/span>th <\/span>of its extensive landed property.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Additional data for the racial history of the Bibile family and its relation to the Wedda is\u00a0 made available by the current anthropological material, offered on the one hand by the family\u00a0 itself, and on the other by the last existing group of their traditional ancestors, the last Weddas\u00a0 of the old princely clan of the Mor\u00e1ne, settling in the Danig\u00e1la mountains.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The p h o t o s from table 1 show the grandfather and the father of the current R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmaya,\u00a0 as well as himself and his son. The description of the grandfather, given by the anthropologist\u00a0 Emil S c h m i d t from Leipzig who must have been in Bibile about the beginning of August\u00a0 1889, is quite accurate. S c h m i d t says:\u201d After a long time came\u2026.the father of the\u00a0 R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmaya, in European dress, a beautiful Sinhalese head with a high forehead and long\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

rolling white beard.\u201d13\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, Abes\u00fandare Bibile had been the characteristic anthropological\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

typus of a distinguished Kandyan, the north indian blood of his father Hinb\u00e1nda absolutely\u00a0 dominating and the old Wedda blood of his mother Loku M\u00e9nika absolutely not recognizable\u00a0 any more. Completely different it is with his son, although his mother is the last representative of\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

13 E. S c h m i d t: Ceylon. Berlin 1897, p. 72.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

an old purely Kandyan noble family full of rich traditions.<\/span>14 <\/span>E. S c h m i d tdid this already notice,\u00a0 too; he describes the then R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmaya as follows:\u201d He was yet a young man, Sinhalese,\u00a0 but with his long, straight, pitch black hair, parted in the middle and combed back, with his hard featured, bony face, the dark piercing eyes, strongly protruding aquiline nose he reminded me\u00a0 more of a Red Indian than of a native of Ceylon\u2026. His movements and manners were polished\u00a0 in a European way.\u201d<\/span>15<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, on the group photos preserved by the family, the old R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmaya\u00b4s looks differ\u00a0 from those of the average type of the Kandyan nobility. His nose is rather high, as is typical for\u00a0 the \u201cAryan\u201d (better to be called <\/span>north indid <\/span>from the racial point of view) inhabitants of Ceylon.\u00a0 But at the same time it shows a considerable width at the nostrils. Wide, distended nostrils,\u00a0 however, are one of the best marks of the Weddas, as also the protruding cheekbones that\u00a0 might in a large face look \u201cbony and Red Indian\u201d. By chance I found a passage in L e w i s<\/span>16<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

with a quite similar description of a guaranteed mixed Wedda breed: \u201c The general cast of\u00a0 features is reminiscent of the North American Indian, in that the nose and cheek bones are\u00a0 strongly pronounced.\u201d Examples of Weddoid formes of noses see on tables 2,6 and 7. The wide distended nostrils seem to be a highly characteristic feature of Weddas and Wedda\u00a0 mixed people, they also reappear in his son, the current R\u00e1temah\u00e1tmayam in a very expressive\u00a0 way (see table 1).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

14 Bibile Wal\u00e1ue ( Wal\u00e1ue = seat of Nobles) preserves documents and silver swords, presented to this family by Sinhalese kings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

15 E. S c h m i d t, op. cit.,p. 39\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

16 F. Lewis, op. cit., p. 287<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Read More Details – Return of the Ancestors \u2013 Sharing an Intangible Heritage \u2013 By Kavinda Bibile, Carola Krebs & Maria Schetelich<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ranil Bibile<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Carola Krebs<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Schetelich<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Based on the Family Tree compiled by<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Baron Egon von Eickstedt<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

From documents provided by<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Rat\u00e9mahattaya C.W.Bibile<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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