They married into the leading radala families and became naturalized as Sinhala Kandyan. Ananda’s family history attributes their origin to a ‘prince’ Sumedha from Tanjore who came to Sri Lanka, ...

A Glossary at the back explains all the Sinhala terms used in the book.The first three stories appear to feature a genuine, traditional Kandyan family of that period, (1905 to the 1910s). The imposing ...

With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention ... the existence of an independent kingdom in Central Sri Lanka was viewed as a threat to their imperial aspirations when John ...