LankaWeb – Foreign Affairs of the Sinhala Kingdom of Kandy

Senaka Weeraratna The Foreign affairs of the Sinhala Kingdom of Kandy (1469–1815) were defined by a sophisticated, high-stakes strategy of survival. As the last independent native monarchy in Sri Lanka, Kandy leveraged its treacherous mountainous geography to resist conquest. Simultaneously, its rulers practiced a pragmatic foreign policy of “leasing one devil to drive out another”—alternating […]