ring more [Sinhala] colonists to lands that have been fully developed and provided with irrigation and other facilities than we have ever done before.Professor A Jeyaratnam Wilson in his, S J V Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism, 1947 - 1977, writes, His Federal Party (Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi) now offered the alternative of a Tamil-speaking autonomous state.