Sudu Sevaneli (White Shadows), a historical drama directed by Sunil Ariyarathne and based on Piyadasa Welikannage’s award winning novel of the same name, was recently screened at the Fukuoka ...

The British had been visiting Ceylon long before they arrived as rulers. In the 17th century, they had used Kottiyar harbour in Trincomalee for trade, ship repairs and shelter from the monsoon.

Since the colonial powers believed that the people of the colonies did not merit the enlightened economic and political systems of the West, the principal function of their administrations in the ...

THE lovely island of Ceylon, which had been a British Crown Colony since 1798, could have become completely independent in 1948 if its political class had so decided. In the vast, comprehensive ...

The UK-Ceylon Defence Pact of 1947 was entered into with great expectations from both parties. But it was jinxed from the word go. Continually contested right throughout its existence, it was given a ...

Since the fall of Kandy in 1815, Ceylon significant for its innumerable resources and pivotal geographic location, became a colony of the British. Queen Victoria was British Ceylon’s fourth monarch ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka has decided to remove all remaining references to its British colonial name Ceylon from state institutions. Ceylon gained independence from Britain in ...

In 1829 the Crown Colony of Ceylon was visited by two distinguished civil servants. Tasked by the British government to investigate the state of the colony and the future of its administration, they ...