Credit: Wikimedia Commons [CC BY 3.0]. Starting from 1816, the 35-year-old king, the last sovereign of the kingdom of Kandy, spent 17 years in exile in Vellore Fort. This was a steep fall for a ...

along with the financial costs of the British expedition to Kandy, had convinced D’Oyly that there were alternative ways of subjugating the Kandyan Kingdom. Having arrived in Ceylon in 1801 at ...

Both were built by the last king of Kandy who had been forced by superior arms — and treachery — to surrender his kingdom. The Madras squadrons The No 99 (Madras Presidency) Squadron of the ...

Anuradha Seneviratna- Professor Emeritus- University of Peradeniya, takes us through the glory days of the Kandy Kingdom- from its establishment in 1592 by King Vimaladharmasuriya I to its resistance ...

The ‘Siri Dalada Vandanawa’, a special veneration of the Sacred Tooth Relic, will commence today (18) after 16 years. President Anura Kumara Disanayake, along with Ambassadors, High Commissioners and ...

Tens of thousands of pilgrims thronged Sri Lanka's holy city of Kandy on Friday at the start of a rare display of a prized Buddhist relic, triggering traffic chaos and public protests. Devotees ...

the United Kingdom, Thailand, Canada and South Korea travelled to Kandy yesterday morning by train from the Colombo Fort Railway Station to participate in the inauguration of the Siri Dalada ...

It is the resting place of the last ruler of the Sri Lankan kingdom of Kandy, Sri Vikrama Rajasingha, since 1832. Saturday (January 30) will mark the death anniversary of this “Tamil-speaking ...

As I ventured into the heart of Sri Lanka’s highlands, Kandy unfolded like a vivid tapestry, woven with threads of its colonial past and the lush, green vibrancy of its famous tea plantations.