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  • factor in Sri Lankan social stratification, especially in the Sinhalese and Indian Tamil communities. Ponnambalam Ramanathan, under British Ceylon, opposed...
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    Dutch Ceylon (Sinhala: ලන්දේසි ලංකාව; Tamil: ஒல்லாந்த இலங்கை) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company. Although...
    30 KB (3,363 words) - 22:34, 27 October 2024
  • Muthu Coomaraswamy (category Members of the Legislative Council of Ceylon)
    January 1834 – 4 May 1879) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, writer and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. Coomaraswamy was born on 23 January 1834 in Amaittodam...
    7 KB (518 words) - 16:47, 28 October 2024
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    Ceylon Observer was an English-language daily newspaper in Sri Lanka published by Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL). It was founded in 1834...
    10 KB (749 words) - 11:03, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sri Lankan junglefowl
    (Gallus lafayettii sometimes spelled Gallus lafayetii), also known as the Ceylon junglefowl or Lafayette's junglefowl, is a member of the Galliformes bird...
    10 KB (1,164 words) - 07:45, 16 September 2024
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    James Emerson Tennent (category Governors of British Ceylon)
    of Lisburn, and a resident Colonial Secretary in Ceylon. Opposed to the restoration of a parliament in Dublin, his defence of Ireland's union with Great...
    19 KB (1,724 words) - 06:40, 28 June 2024
  • Casie (1834). The Ceylon Gazetteer: Containing an Accurate Account of the Districts, Provinces, Cities, Towns ... &c. of the Island of Ceylon. Cotta Church...
    27 KB (3,095 words) - 17:41, 22 November 2024
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    Erected as the Diocese of Ceylon, on territory split off from the Diocese of Cochin by Pope Gregory XVI on December 3, 1834. Renamed as the Diocese of...
    11 KB (1,008 words) - 14:18, 25 October 2024
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    produced for circulation in the British colonies, mainly in Ceylon and the West Indies in each year between 1834 and 1843, and also in 1860 and 1862. Proof...
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  • formed a subcaste of the Vellalars. Caste system in Sri Lanka Chitty, Simon Casie (1834). The Ceylon Gazetteer: Containing an Accurate Account of the...
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  • parts of Ceylon, with Squance and Lynch to Jaffna, Ault to Batticaloa, Erskine to Matara, and Clough remaining in Galle. Harvard who remained in Bombay...
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  • Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) (category Newspapers established in 1834)
    Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), a government-owned corporation. The paper, which was established in the present-day format in 1928, has roots...
    11 KB (991 words) - 01:01, 20 April 2024
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    William Chester Minor (category 1834 births)
    Minor; 22 June 1834 – 26 March 1920) was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher. After serving in the Union...
    14 KB (1,475 words) - 23:51, 31 October 2024
  • Louis Corneille Wijesinghe (category Mudaliyars of Ceylon)
    Wijesinha (19 September 1834 - 25 March 1895) was a Ceylonese British colonial-era headmen and a Pali scholar. He was born in Panadura to Reverend Cornelius...
    3 KB (316 words) - 01:59, 26 October 2024
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    in the Possession of the East India Company", Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Saint Helena. The Act came into force on 1 August 1834, and was repealed in...
    38 KB (3,829 words) - 17:16, 11 November 2024
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    newspaper in Africa in Mauritius in 1773. The first recorded attempt to found a newspaper in South Asia was by William Bolts, a Dutchman in the employ...
    106 KB (2,492 words) - 14:54, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Slavery in South Africa
    Slavery in South Africa existed from 1653 in the Dutch Cape Colony until the abolition of slavery in the British Cape Colony on 1 January 1834. This followed...
    7 KB (748 words) - 19:17, 21 November 2024
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    Vembadi Girls High School (category 1834 establishments in Ceylon)
    Sri Lanka's oldest schools. Methodist missionaries from Britain arrived in Ceylon on 29 June 1814. Two of the missionaries, Rev. James Lynch and Rev. Thomas...
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  • Croatia is completed. Wolvendaal Church in Colombo (Dutch Ceylon) is completed. Ossian's Hall of Mirrors in Scotland, a folly, is built. William Chambers...
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  • John Boultbee (explorer) (category Articles lacking in-text citations from June 2015)
    Philippines and Singapore, he arrived at Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in May 1834, remaining there until his death, probably in 1854. He compiled his 'Journal of a rambler'...
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