The Kingdom of Kandy was the last independent monarchy of Sri Lanka, whose mountain fastness allowed it to resist European colonial powers for nearly 350 years; its Temple of the Tooth remains the most sacred site in Theravada Buddhism.
The Kingdom of Kandy ended on 2 March 1815 CE when the last Kandyan king Sri Vikrama Rajasinha surrendered to British forces under Governor Robert Brownrigg; the Kandyan Convention was signed, ceding the kingdom to the British Crown and ending Sinhalese sovereignty.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Kingdom of Kandy — the shape you scrub through changes in 1469 · 1683 · 1749.
A Cambridge scholarly study of the Kandyan Kingdom's landscape, ritual and royal power — directly on this polity and in print.
De Silva's revised single-volume history is the standard scholarly account of the island from antiquity to the present.