With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention, ceremonially signed on March 10, 1815, completed the annexation of the island to the British Empire. This brought an end to the rule ...

While there might have been benefits of British rule in the Kandyan kingdom, it is the deleterious effects on the social, educational and community life post- Convention and the undermining of a long ...

a. The social and economic relations of the central highlands under the Kandyan Kingdom, the immediate pre-colonial social and economic order, were his focus. His analysis did not cover to the ...

India and Sri Lanka will sign a major defence cooperation pact during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Colombo, aimed ...

The news of the gruesome execution of Ehelepola’s family was conveyed to D’Oyly by Major Davie, who was taken prisoner during the 1803 war in Kandy. All efforts to find the whereabouts of the British ...

Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon) is an island in the Indian Ocean about 28 kilometers off the southeastern coast of india.

With British colonial rulers controlling the coastal regions, including the lowlands, they secured the Kandyan kingdom through an agreement unifying Sri Lanka into a single state in March 1815. Until ...