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Expanding Participation in Tapping the Dutch East India Company Archives: Call for participation: user questionnaire The GLOBALISE project is developing a digital platform to make Dutch colonial-era records—specifically Dutch East India Company archives—more accessible to communities around the world. These records … Continue reading →

Netherlands: Today’s GLOBALISE Project ….“GLOBALISE and Sri Lanka–related archival materials” The GLOBALISE project is a digital archival and historical initiative developing an online research platform to make around 5 million scans of the Dutch East India Company archives accessible to a wide … Continue reading →

Naren Chitty Introduction: The Coromandel Coast milieu of 17th century Chetty migrants to Zeylan is addressed here in relation to Udayappa Chetty (d. 1693). He was an ancestor of the Chetty family of Christian S. Chitty (1841-1891), as well as others … Continue reading →

An Item in the  Financial Times 23 December 2025 …..Sent by Jayantha Somasundarum of Canberra … where the web deployed this  title: “Elephant House Ice Cream marks historic launch in Australia” Ceylon Cold Stores PLC (CCS), a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings … Continue reading →

Royston Ellis, article in The ISLAND, 13 February 2025, …entitled therein as “Vinodh Wickremeratne’s Jottings as Memoirs on the Past” Vinodh L. J. Wickremeratne describes himself as a Colombologist, a word he has invented to explain his fascination not just … Continue reading →