A Short history of Lanka

by Humphry William Codrington | 1926 | 48,606 words

Summary: Printed Edition 1926
Macmillan and Co., Limited
St Martin's Street, London

Web Edition 2000
Rhajiv Ratnatunga
Pittsburgh. PA USA

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Editors Note

Codrington's Note

Chapter I - The Beginnings and the conversion to Buddhism (543 BC鈥�161 BC)

Chapter II - Duttha Gamani to Kassapa of Sigiriya; third century B.C.鈥擲ixth Century A.D. (161 BC鈥�479 AD)

Chapter III - The medieval kingdom to the Chola conquest in the eleventh century (479 AD鈥�1070AD)

Chapter IV - The Polonnaruwa Kings (1070 AD鈥�1215 AD)

Chapter V - The Dambadeniya and Gampola Kings (1215 AD鈥�1411 AD)

Chapter VI - The Kotte dynasty and its Portuguese allies (1412 AD鈥�1550 AD)

Chapter VII - The ascendency of Sitawaka and of Portugal (1550 AD鈥�1635 AD)

Chapter VIII - The decline of the Portuguese power (1635 AD鈥�1656 AD)

Chapter IX - The Dutch occupation (1656 AD鈥�1796 AD)

Chapter X - Transition to British administration (1796 AD鈥�1805 AD)