After 16 years, a public exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha – one of the most venerated objects of worship of Buddhists – is taking place. The exposition is on from ...

A person of big ideas and an even bigger humanistic imagination," Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and ...

His most recent book, “The Creation of the Hunter: the Vadda Presence in the Kandyan Kingdom” was written in his 90s. Gananath’s seminal work, “The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in ...

2. All crimes committed on the people including taking over of all native lands and property of this country including the destruction of the Kandy city in the 1803 invasion of the Kandyan Kingdom 3.

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 ...

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

24.3.2019 Who are Kandyans In this essay I refer to all those people who lived within the territory known as the Kandyan Kingdom at the time of signing the Kandyan Convention in 1815 and their ...

In 1765, these items were taken as loot by the Dutch from the Kandyan Kingdom during the siege of the Palace. The embassy said the people of the Netherlands feel a moral obligation to return looted or ...