With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention, ceremonially signed on March 10, 1815, completed the annexation ...

Sri Lanka could have followed Myanmar’s example ... clause that would ensure the protection of Buddhism, mindful of the 1815 Kandyan Convention’s Article 5. Dr. Colvin R.

They gained complete control of the country in 1815 when the Kandyan kingdom was ceded to the British by Kandyan chiefs who had turned against the king. Thereafter Sri Lanka remained part of the ...

The path to Independence With the surrender of the Kandyan kingdom to the British in 1815, Sri Lanka lost her independence. The last king, Sri Wickrema Rajasinghe was deposed and the Kandyan kingdom ...