Nilgiri
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I am aware of Indian support for the various Tamil groups. I am not sure who started the whole thing - TN politicians or the Center. It did not help Sri Lanka that Indira Gandhi and MGR decided to form an electoral alliance for unrelated reasons. It did not help that Indira Gandhi was assassinated & MGR had a stroke in 1984. they were wily strong politicians who could impose a political settlement
From Indian side it was TN politicians who first got involved (given they had the closest affinity to SL Tamil people and smelled political opportunity from it). The centre could not care less at the start. IG got involved because MGR meant a lot to her politically (since he supported her strongly in emergency rule etc etc).