The British Ceylon period is the history of Sri Lanka between 1815 and 1948. It follows the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom into the hands of the British Empire.
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The British East India Company's conquest of Sri Lanka, which the British called Ceylon, occurred during the wars of the French Revolution (1792–1801).
Ceylon (Sinhala: බ්රිතාන්ය ලංකාව, Brithānya Laṃkāva; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, Birithaniya Ilangai) was the British Crown colony of present-day Sri ...
Ceylon* has several claims to occupy a special place in British colonial history (Map 18.2). Apart from the old colonies of settlement which became Dominions ...
Brief History. The story of Britain's acquisition of Ceylon, one of the strangest in the history of imperial expansion is a classic example of how intrigue ...
Feb 16, 2023 ˇ The 1795 British invasion of Ceylon was a significant event in the history of Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon. This invasion marked the end of ...
The British renamed island Ceylon. They took full control of the island in 1815 after it brought down the kingdom based in Kandy. The British established a ...
The British colonizer in Ceylon entered a society which had a rich and diverse cultural heritage, albeit already fractured along ethnic, religious, and caste ...
A small British fleet successfully captured Negapatam, India on 11th November 1781, quickly followed up on 2 January 1782, by a second fleet, comprising of 1300 ...
Jan 9, 2018 ˇ The Kandyan Convention ended with a treaty essentially ceading all lands to the British empire while rights were granted to the populace and the ...
