Being a nation invaded by three European powers and suffered from the gruesome colonial subjugation Sri Lanka too had its encounters with European invaders to protect its integrity against all odds.

Sri Lanka and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony”, I argue that there was an evocative similarity between the kingdom of Kandy and the colonial state. Unlike any of the European powers who preceded ...

Sri Lankan military personnel took part in a parade on Tuesday to mark the country's 77th Independence Day. Sri Lanka ...

Under British colonial rule, the economy of Sri Lanka was transformed to become a producer of agricultural ... intellectuals who took advantage of the opportunity to gain a western-style education, ...

Harshan Kumarasingham’s A Political Legacy of the British Empire: Power and the Parliamentary System in Post-Colonial India and Sri Lanka (I.B. Tauris, 2013) is now available in Sri Lanka ...

Buddhasasana, Religious, and Cultural Affairs Minister Vidura Wickramanayake said that many antiquities taken from the country by the United Kingdom during the colonial period, including the statue of ...

In October this year, the university in Jaffna completes its first 50 years. But the idea of setting up a modern Western-style institution of higher learning, an American-style College ...

While all three cases are situated in Greater Asia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh experienced British colonial rule, whereas Syria was under ... His authoritarian style, institutionalised through banning ...

The little-known coastal town of Galle is almost a Sri Lankan ... included Ceylon. Colonial architecture, especially martial, is its leitmotif: Portuguese and Dutch forts and British colonial ...

suppress and hang the native Sinhala patriots who revolted and rose against the British colonial Government. Bogambara did the same job in Sri Lanka to Sinhalese, what the Bastiile did in France.