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Ethnic Crisis in Sri Lanka: Indians Options, National Pub Appendices Bibliography Page | 242 Bibliography Select Bibliography (A) Primary Sources Agreement on Persons of Indian Origin in Ceylon, 30 October 1964, Ministry of External Affairs of India. (1964). http://mea.gov.in/ bilateral-documents. htm? dtl/6426 /Agreement +on+Persons+of+Indian+Origin+in+Ceylon, [Accessed on-15/01/2015]. Census of Population and Housing (1981). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka, http://nada.statistics.gov.lk/index.php/catalog/1271/accesspolicy, [Accessed on 11/02/2017]. Census of Population and Housing (2001). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka http://www.statistics.gov.lk/PopHouSat/PDF/Population/p9p8%20Ethnicity.pdf, [Accessed on 11/02/2017]. Census of Population and Housing of Sri Lanka, (2012). 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