Talk:British Ceylon/Archive 1

No Introduction
This article is completely without introduction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.183.188.216 (talk) 12:02, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Article Quality
This whole article is appallingly written. In fact it is nearly unintelligible. Presumably the author does not have a sufficient grasp of the English language to write it properly. Please, would someone who is able to write suitably in English, who also has access to citeable academic sources, re-write it? (I may re-write it in English and delete some of the bizarre and undocumented information; even without citations that would be better.)Factsareinconvenient (talk) 09:15, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Crest brit ceylon.gif
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Sri Lanka?
Ceylon is now Sri Lanka, right? The article should make that clear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.134.52.64 (talk) 06:26, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Rebelion
There was an time when Sri Lankans fled the British out of Sri Lanka (ceylon). --Oiler94 (talk) 09:11, 99 April 2008 (UTC)

"Fled the British out of Sri Lanka"? Please translate.

This entire article sorely needs to be re-written in standard English.JohnC (talk) 08:04, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

The British Raj and the support from the Natives
Is "mixed breed population" really the term to use in order to discuss the ethnography of the island? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Galorette (talk • contribs) 22:52, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

list of british monarchs
I notice that the list of bristish monarchs in that box on the right has included Edwards VIII and George VI in the edit view, but they do not show up. I suspect something is wrong with the box, maybe there is a limit? --Kvasir (talk) 17:24, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Establishment date
The British conquest of Ceylon began in 1795. They captured Trincomalee on 26 August 1795 and then worked their way up the coast. Jaffna fell on 28 September 1795. On 16 February 1796 the Dutch in Colombo surrendered. This date is generally regarded as the beginning of British rule in Ceylon. Ceylon became a crown colony on 12 October 1798 with its own governor (previously it had been governed from Madras). The Treaty of Amiens, signed on 25 March 1802, formally ceded Ceylon to Britain. If people want to delude themselves that British Ceylon didn't come into existence until 1815, when the Kandyan Convention was signed, let them do so.

(P.S. Blackknight12, you would do well to follow your own advice about going to talk before reverting - it was you who first reverted another editor's contributions, without any explanation.)-- obi2canibe talk contr 14:19, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

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