Kaffirs : Descendants of enslaved Africans (The Kaffirs were brought to Sri Lanka by the Portuguese, Dutch and British, as a part of the naval force and for domestic work. Portuguese seafarers carried the first kaffirs to what was then Ceylon in the 1500s ...
The Jews of old Ceylon (The Jews were a thriving community in this country till the beginning of World War II. We had a Justice of the Supreme Court in the colonial days who was a Jew, name of Schneider. Then came World War II and I lost sight and trace o ...
The Colombo Chetties - who were they? (The advent of the Colombo Chetty community from Nagapatnam, India is well documented from 1663 during the reign of King Rajasingha 11 of Kandy, and the governorship of the Dutch Ryckloff Van Goens. With the arrival o ...
Sri Lankan Malay People - "Ja Minissu"( Sri Lanka's Malays are largely descended from political exiles including chiefs and nobles, soldiers, convicts and freed slaves from the Indonesian archipelago and the Malayan peninsula who were brought over to the ...
There have been Muslims in Sri Lanka for well over a thousand years. Trading dhows plied the waters between the Middle East and the island known to Arab sailors - like the legendary Sinbad - as Serendib even in pre-Islamic times. The first Muslim merchant ...
Ahikuntika: Sri Lankan gypsy clan (Gypsies or Ahikuntikas, are among the few isolated communities in the country like Veddahs and Rodiyas, say experts.) The gypsy who stayed (Gypsies were always around in Anuradhapura during Poson and Vesak when pilgri ...
"I was born in the forest. My ancestors come from here. We are the forest beings, and I want to live and die here. And even if I were reborn only as a fly or an ant, I would still be happy so long as I knew I would come back to live here in the forest." - ...
Yakkas - The Ancient Sri Lankans ( These Expert Horsemen Developed Hydrolic Civilization in the Country ) The original inhabitants of Lanka: Yakas & Nagas (Sri Lanka is said to have been inhabited by Yakkas (demon-worshippers) , Rakshasas and Nagas (s ...
අංක 06, විජේරාම මාවත, කොළඹ 07, ශ්රී ලංකාව
අංක 275/75, ස්ටැන්ලි විජේවර්ධන මාවත, කොළඹ 07, Sri Lanka
විජේරාම හවුස්, 6,විජේරාම පාර, කොළඹ 07, ශ්රී ලංකාව
275/75, බෙෘද්ධාලෝක මාවත, කොළඹ 07, ශ්රී ලංකාව
අංක540, තිබිරිගස්යාය පාර, කොළඹ 05, ශ්රී ලංකාව
21/22 A, පොල්හේන්ගොඩ ගාඩින්ස්,පොල්හේන පාර, කොළඹ 05, ශ්රී ලංකාව
The ‘Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB)’ Program of the International Labour Organization is a system of inter-related practical management-skills training package for small-scale enterprise owners and managers. It encompasses a range of cost-effectiv ...
120,ෙමාඩිල් ෆාමි පාර, කොළඹ 08, ශ්රී ලංකාව
Founded in Sri Lanka in the year 2000, the Menopause Society of Sri Lanka has drawn interest not only among the medical professionals but the general public as well, who constitute a sizeable section of its membership. The MSSL not only strives to educate ...
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The Law & Society Trust (LST) is a not for profit organization engaged in human rights documentation, legal research and advocacy based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Our aim is to use rights based strategies in research, documentation and advocacy in order to ...