The Kandyan Convention: A Treaty That Couldn't Hold

In 1815, a group of Kandyan chiefs signed away their kingdom to the British, ending millennia of Sinhalese independence. Lucas and Luna explore how the Kandyan Convention came to be, the grievances that drove the chiefs to rebellion, and why the treaty's promises of religious protection and customary law were broken within two years. They examine the British governor's provocative actions, the 1818 Uva Rebellion that followed, and the brutal reprisals that sealed Kandy's fate. The conversation draws on the Mahavamsa, the Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thera's legacy, and the careers of Governor Brownrigg and the rebel leader Keppetipola Disawe. It's a story of betrayal, resistance, and the high cost of colonial 'protection.'

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