Kalinga roots of Sinhalese

" We Sinhalese should remember that our ancestors came from Lada, a territory between Bengal and Kalinga about 2,400 years ago, and that they settled down in that part of the land now known as Anuradhapura......"

From Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala, Guruge. ed.,Colombo, Government Press, 1965

(Anagarika Dharmapala founded the Maha Bodhi Society in 1891 to spread Buddhism throughout the world)

Courtesy : http://www.nowpublic.com/world/sinhalese-buddhist-chuvanism-sri-lanka