Ceylon And The Hollanders 1658-1796 - PB

About the book:- A concise book, with a vast compass, this work details the Dutch occupation, and career in Sri Lanka. There are 10 chapters in this book, amongst which the reader would find notices of: the Lascarins; the Burghers; the French Company; Bibilegama captured; the Vanni; Laurens Ply as Governor; Hendrik van Rheede; Vimala Daham Surya; unrest in Jaffna; Cornelis Joan Simons; Narendra Simha; Governor Becker’s reforms; Pielat as commissioner; Vijaya Raja Sinha; Lienderan de Saram; legal administration; cardamoms; pepper; the Catholic missionaries; the kings marriages; Matara occupied; method of conversion; withdrawal of Van Eck; Falck as governor; trouble with Thever; canals; Buddhism tolerated; Thomas Nagel; development of cinnamon planting; the Sinhalese kingdom; Jaffna occupied; and, end of the Company’s rule. This book is a reprint of the 1918 edition. The author has written a book on the Portuguese in Ceylon, in the same manner. About the author:-Sir Paulus Edward Pieris, CMG, CCS, Litt.D was a Ceylonese civil servant and historian. He served as Ceylon's Trade Commissioner and a District Judge and held multiple appointments as President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka. It has been remarked that Pieris was never given a position in the Civil Service that was commensurate with his intellect and ability, and as such he turned his attention toward in depth historical research on the European occupation in Ceylon from the 16th Century onwards. He carried out extensive historical research in Ceylon and he was several times elected the President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Ceylon having last held the role from 1932 to 1934 to whose journal he contributed frequently from 1904 to 1948. He further single-handedly edited the journal during the years of World War II when the society's functions were greatly disrupted by external factors