Kandy, Sri Lanka’s last and most exotic monarchy, ... The old kingdom is a magnificent natural fortress, rising to 7,000 feet, spouting the wildest of rivers, some as broad as the Thames.

The Nayaks of Kandy ruled over the Kingdom of Kandy in present-day Sri Lanka for over 85 years. This began in 1739 and ended in 1815. In terms of the broader context of history, this ...

At almost the same time half a world away, courtiers in the Sri Lankan kingdom of Kandy were celebrating their recent triumph over Anglo-Indian forces with an epic poem, the “Ingrisi Hatana ...

The place where the king was kept in custody is a mansion called Kandy Mahal, a house that belonged to Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. The Kandy king and some of his noble men had ...

Rediscovering the blend of faiths that laid the foundation for the ancient kingdom of Kandy. After 26 years and 70,000 casualties, Sri Lanka’s civil war has ended—for now.

Why the last king of Kandy had to spend his final years in an Indian fort Sri Vikrama Rajasinha faced the same fate as Bahadur Shah Zafar and Burma’s Theebaw Min would later. Ajay Kamalakaran ...

It is the resting place of the last ruler of the Sri Lankan kingdom of Kandy, Sri Vikrama Rajasingha, since 1832. Saturday (January 30) will mark the death anniversary of this “Tamil-speaking ...