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The '''Nehru-Kotelawala Pact''' was an agreement that was signed between [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the [[Prime Minister of India]], and [[John Kotelawala]], the [[Prime Minister of Sri Lanka]], on 18 January 1954.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/CK17Df01.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020208193722/http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/CK17Df01.html | url-status=unfit | archive-date=2002-02-08 | title=Sri Lanka: The untold story | publisher=[[Asia Times Online]] | date=17 November 2001 | access-date=15 March 2015 | author=Rajasingham, K T}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=13217 | title=The Foreign Policy of Sirimavo Bandaranaike | publisher=The Island (Sri Lanka) | date=11 December 2015 | access-date=15 March 2015 | author=Dhanapala, Jayantha}}</ref> It was an agreement in regarding to the status and future of [[Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka|people of Indian origin in Ceylon]]. They were brought by [[British Ceylon|British]] from [[Madras Presidency]] in [[British India]] to work in tea, coffee and coconut plantations of [[British Ceylon]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://infolanka.asia/sri-lanka/people/the-foreign-policy-of-sirimavo-bandaranaike/relations-with-india | title=The Foreign Policy of Sirimavo Bandaranaike – RELATIONS WITH INDIA | publisher=infolanka.asia | access-date=15 March 2015}}</ref>

In the pact, India accepted in principle the repatriation of Indian population in Ceylon. But [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] only supported voluntary repatriation of those who voluntary accepted Indian citizenship.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Eastern Economist; a Weekly Review of Indian and International Economic Affairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HeUnAAAAMAAJ|access-date=3 June 2016|year=1962|page=712}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=World Focus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_9QAQAAIAAJ|access-date=3 June 2016|year=1996|publisher=Hari Sharan Chhabra|page=51}}</ref> India disagreed on Sri Lankan position that suggested granting Indian citizenship to people, who failed to qualify for Sri Lankan citizenship.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cope.nu/show.asp?NewsID=170&DocType=News | title=Statelessness abolished? | publisher=Cope | access-date=15 March 2015 | author=Bibin, Thomas | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813065808/http://www.cope.nu/show.asp?NewsID=170&DocType=News | archive-date=13 August 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Ceylon Citizenship Act]], 1948
* [[Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact]], 1957
* [[Sirima-Shastri Pact]], 1964
* [[Sirima-Gandhi Pact]], 1974

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book | title=Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity | publisher=Northern Book Centre | author=Palanithurai, Ganapathy | year=1993 | pages=120 | isbn=9788172110406}}
* {{cite book | title=S.J.V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism, 1947-1977: A Political Biography | publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers | author=Jeyaratnam Wilson, A | year=1994 | pages=149 | isbn=9781850651307}}

[[Category:Politics of Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:History of Sri Lanka (1948–present)]]
[[Category:India–Sri Lanka relations]]
[[Category:Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka]]

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