Last Stand in Kandy Kindle Edition, by Miliani Philip Sansoni (Author)
The book “Last Stand in Kandy” discusses the annexation by the British of the Kingdom of Kandy, after centuries of its’ stubborn resistance to foreign powers. It also covers the period before annexation, full of negotiations, intrigue and finally open warfare. The book also deals with the advent of Western colonisation and discusses the rivalry between the Dutch, the British and the French, insofar as it affected Sri Lanka.
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Richard Koenigsberg
Just to go back in time a bit. Before High School, I lived in a lower-middle class neighborhood, (Irvington, New Jersey). I lot of Italians, Poles, etc., although I didn’t pay much attention to ethnicity.
Many of the tough guys at school called me “Jew boy.” Didn’t bother me a bit. I wasn’t religious. My classmates were very much against me at first. I had to reverse this.
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Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPNCricinfo, June 2926
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Sidhartha Thamby … OR … Aruliniyan Mahalingam, in an article entitled “The Land That Never Returned: The North’s Unfinished Struggle under the Thirteenth Amendment”
The Dividends to Reap from State Land
According to the Land Commissioner General’s Department (eSlims, as at 7 February 2022), 123,141 land use permits have been issued against a total of 401,000 families in the province. The number eligible to receive permits in 2022 stood at 40,782, with 6,040 permits still unused.
All permits ultimately flow through the Governor’s office for processing before titles are issued by the Director General of Lands in Colombo — a labour-intensive sequence that encompasses title settlement, land-use inspection, application verification, surveying, and document uploads.
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The week Alexander Garden Fraser stepped ashore in Fremantle, Australian transports were closing on the Dardanelles. Within days the cliffs of Gallipoli would be taking the bodies of farm boys from Ballarat and bank clerks from Bathurst, and the country he had come to address — its mood pledged to a distant war, its borders sealed by a colour line then less than fifteen years old — would find itself remade by grief. Into this charged atmosphere walked a Scottish clergyman from a hill town in central Ceylon, ostensibly to speak for the Church Missionary Society. What he in fact did, between Melbourne in mid-April and Perth in mid-May, was to challenge — quietly, then less quietly — the racial settlement on which the Australian Commonwealth had been founded.
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ESPNcricinfo Staff …. https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ambidextrous-spinner-shashini-gimhani-in-sri-lanka-s-t20-world-cup-squad-1538811
Batter Vishmi Gunaratne, wristspinner Shashini Gimhani and seamer Kawya Kavindi have been picked in Sri Lanka’s squad of 15 for the Women’s T20 World Cup in England starting on June 12.
Chamari Athapaththu was named captain of the team and will be representing Sri Lanka in her tenth T20 World Cup.
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And Where a Roberts enters the Reckoning ! …. https://www.aramcoworld.com/en/articles/2026/mj26/football-or-soccer-why-the-world-cant-agree-on-the-name
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Michael Roberts
Barbara Sansoni’s artistic flair and depth of knowledge on Sri Lanka’s architectural history has been widely acclaimed. Her book VIHARES AND VERANDAHS, printed in 0000, has been widely acclaimed — see https://thuppahis.com/2022/05/03/vihares-and-verandahs-barbara-sansonis-magnum-opus/.
It is a rare book and a book collector’s dream. Sharon Jones in the United Kingdom has stepped forward now to present Lankan aficianado with the opportunity to render the dream a reality. At a price of course. Her address is
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To: Mayor Tom Tate ….. “No Trump Golf Course on the Gold Coast!”
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Dayan Jayatilleka rightly challenges the narrative that S. J. V. Chelvanayakam turned to federalism only after supposedly foreseeing Sinhala majoritarian discrimination against Tamils following the 1948 Citizenship Act. ……………………………………… (See https://www.ft.lk/columns/The-federalist-fantasy-Tamil-political-tragedy-Lankan-political-history/4-792193)
I would like to add another episode from Sri Lanka’s political history, one that has received absolutely no attention in studies of the conflict. This account is drawn directly from the Hansard reports of 1947, that is, even before Ceylon became an independent nation.
On 26 November 1947, during one of the earliest sessions of the State Council under the Soulbury constitution, the newly elected member for Kankesanthurai, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, raised the idea of secession in his remarks. He stated that the Tamils of Jaffna had the right to secede from Ceylon and suggested that, if they wished, such a move could even take place with India’s support.
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thuppahi
