LankaWeb – Dutch writer Philippus Baldaeus account of the persecution of the Tamil Hindus by the Portuguese in Jaffna

AI Overview Philippus Baldaeus, a Dutch Reformed Church minister and chaplain who accompanied Dutch forces when they captured Jaffna from the Portuguese in 1658, provided a detailed account of the decades-long religious and physical persecution of the Tamil Hindus under Portuguese rule. Published in 1672 in his seminal work, A True and Exact Description of […]