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2 days ago · Sri Lanka - Dutch Rule, Colonialism, Trade: Dutch rule in Sri Lanka was implemented though the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-indische Compagnie; commonly called VOC), a trading company established in 1602 primarily to protect Dutch trade interests in the Indian Ocean. Although the VOC first controlled only the coastal lands, the Dutch gradually pushed inland, occupying considerable territory in southern, southwestern, and western Sri Lanka. In 1665 they expanded to the east coast ...
British trade and commerce in the decade and a half after 1948.6 By focusing on British perspectives on the changing relationship with Ceylon, particularly during the turbulent late 1950s and early 1960s, this article also aims to shed. new light on the official British attitude towards South Asia during this period.
May 18, 2018 · For the traditional view, see Turner, (1923), pp. 190 – 209 Google Scholar and De Silva, Colvin R., Ceylon under the British Occupation 1795–1833, Vol. II (Colombo Apothecaries Ltd., 1942), 340 –53, 364 –72Google Scholar. It might be noted here that throughout his book Dr. De Silva uses the phrase “land tax” in a loose sense and does not clarify the crops or the land to which it was applied in British times.
Cairns Family History member Larry Andresen has considerable expertise in researching British Ceylon ancestry, and has compiled a number of unique indexes that will assist researchers with British Ceylon heritage or with ancestors who lived in British Ceylon for a time. Links to British Ceylon Indexes: Ceylon Civil Service Widow & Orphan Fund ...
Furniture from British India and Ceylon is divided into two sections. The introductory chapters provide contextual background and discuss subjects such as the British response to things Indian, the domestic interior and factors which shaped its appearance, and the sources of furniture.
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The British paid Cleghorn 5,000 pounds for his work and duly added Ceylon, with its fine natural harbour at Trincomalee to its growing Empire. The island was turned over to the East India Company, but after just two years, during which the Company's attempts to impose Indian style taxation provoked rioting among the inhabitants, a dual system of rule was established.
Published in 1964, Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932 is an important contribution to History. Table of Contents I. British Relations with Ceylon, 1762-96, II.
