High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vellalar amongst Sri Lankan Tamils are a dominant group of formerly farming related caste group from Sri Lanka that is found amongst all walks of life and around the world as part of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.What is certain is that the Sri Lankan Tamil Vellalar identity rose amongst those who migrated from neighbouring Tamil Nadu state in India since the 13th century. According to Yalpana Vaipava Malai, a native chronicle, written in the 18th century, which narrates the history of the establishment and the fall of the Jaffna kingdom in Sri Lanka, from its establishment in the 13th century to its fall in the early 17th century, many Vellalar chiefs from Tamil Nadu were responsible for organizing settlement groups from India in to the Jaffna peninsula.