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• Arumuganavalar Museum is one of the archaeological museums.
• It includes more news and research results about srilankan archaeological research.
Arumuka Navalar was the first revivalist of native traditions in Sri Lanka. He along with others like him were responsible for reviving and reforming native traditions and religions such as Hinduism that had come under long period of dormancy and attack during the previous 400 years of colonial rule by various European powers. He was influential in creating a period of intense religious transformation amongst Tamils in India and Sri Lanka. He is regarded as the father of modern Tamil prose, a defender of Saivism (a sect of Hinduism) against Christian missionary activity and the first to use the modern printing press to preserve the Tamil literary tradition. He also attempted to reform Saivism itself. He has been also criticized for the limits of his reforms because his reforms appeared to favor the elite castes
Born : Kandar Arumugam Pillai December 18, 822 Nallur, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka
Died : December 5, 1879 Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Cause of death General illness
Nationality : Sri Lankan
Education : Tamil Pandithar
Known for : Hindu reformer
Religion : Hindu (Saiva)
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