Fly over Galle, a beautifully preserved Dutch colonial fort city on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, where red-tiled rooftops, ...

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to his Sri Lankan counterpart, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, informing him that the ...

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Two Dutch museums returned nearly 500 cultural objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka that were looted during the colonial era, including gold and silverware, statues, weapons and hundreds of artworks.

In Sinhala, the commonly used language in Sri Lanka, they were called Lansi, a term derived from Dutch Hollandsche, meaning inhabitant of Holland. From this socio -cultural concoction birthed the ...

At the launch of the Sri Lankan edition of “Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka: Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society”, with (from left) Prof Nira Wickramasinghe (addressing the gathering), the ...

What is its connection to Thesawalamai law — and did this law exist before these so-called Malabars arrived in Sri Lanka? Why ...

It had been built by a retired Dutch admiral in the early 18th century and was run by Australian boutique-hotelier Geoffrey Dobbs.

Dutch Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Bonnie Horbach emphasized that gender equality is not just a moral imperative but also an economic one. With women comprising 50% of the world’s ...

Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka marks a break in understanding the history of Roman-Dutch law in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, it challenges socio-legal studies that concentrate on major jurisdictional ...

The Dutch also imposed restrictions on fishermen from southern India in Ceylonese waters, an issue that continues to have an impact on India-Sri Lanka ties in the 21st century.