Sri Lankan Other Erotic

This residual category covers Sri Lankan residents not enumerated in the other composition rows — approximately 0.5% of the population. Includes Indian Moor (distinct from Sri Lankan Moor by post-British-period origin), Bharatha (Tamil-speaking Catholic community of the western coast, descended from Portuguese-era converts of the Karava caste), Chetty (the Indian-merchant community, descendants of Tamil and Telugu merchants who settled Sri Lanka during the British period), Sri Lanka Kaffir (the small Afro-Sri-Lankan community descended from African slaves brought by Portuguese and Dutch colonial administrations as laborers and soldiers, ~1,000-2,000 in the Puttalam region), plus smaller and recent immigrant communities.