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.

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 ...

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 ...

Protestant missionaries faced a variety of challenges in converting the people of Ceylon whether from Buddhism, Hinduism or Roman Catholicism. Islam is not in this list because there is no ...

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 ...

At a time when the coffee industry appeared to be making its mark in British colonial Ceylon – today’s Sri Lanka – James Taylor, a 17-year-old Scotsman, arrived in the country to work for a prominent ...