Paul Boon and his extended family pay respects at his great grandfather's grave in a Kandy cemetery.(Supplied: Paul Boon)The largest Burgher populations are found in Sri Lanka's biggest cities.

During this time, the Portuguese, who entered Sri Lanka in 1597, ruled over the low country coastal belt. They controlled the island’s rich spice trade. In 1658, Dutch took over the Portuguese to rule ...

The fifth Solicitor General of Sri Lanka was Mr. James Van Langenburg and based on his surname it is clear that the progenitor of his family hailed from the German village Langenburg. The Ceylonese ...

Interestingly, in Sri Lanka the term Burgher is not just an identifier for a community that’s sadly on the decline (emigration to places like Australia and New Zealand is the main reason, rue ...

There are families in Sri Lanka which have family diasporas of one to two hundred persons or even more. ... Then in the 1950s and 1960s, there came an exodus of the Burgher community, largely due to ...

World Routes Sri Lanka World Routes: Sri Lanka 2011. Sinhalese music focuses on drumming and dancing. In the city of Kandy, capital of the ancient Sinhalese empire, we witness the weekly ritual of ...

Sri Lanka's Burgher king Stepping into Sanath Jayasuriya's shoes is a big ask for any man but Michael Vandort has filled the breach with minimum fuss, writes Aravinda de Silva in the London-based ...

Irangani, a two-act play by Ernest Macintyre, will be launched tomorrow, (September 17) at the Dutch Burgher Union Hall in Colombo 4. Irangani has been successfully performed in Australia with the ...