LankaWeb – Sri Lanka’s survival in the face of its geographic destiny – I

Rohana R. Wasala Nearly four and a half centuries of continuous subjugation under three separate West European imperial powers, namely, Portugal, Holland or Netherlands, and England from 1505 to 1948 served to increasingly conceal the indigeneity of the Sinhalese to their historic island home known as Sihela/Sinhale. The original inhabitants of Sihela who came to […]