Yet, another struggle for independence was the Matale Rebellion of 1848, led by Veera Puran Appu and Gongalegoda Banda. Angered by the unfair acquisition of land and the imposition of new taxes by ...

Watson’s conduct was also discussed by special committees in Parliament in London. Capt. Henderson, who took part in the ambush at Wariyapola, along with Captains Lillie and Watson, later wrote a book ...

The Matale Rebellion was thus emasculated with a single action. The only British casualty was a soldier wounded at Wariyapola. Lillie was acting under martial-law which gave the military enormous ...

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British rule in Sri Lanka broadly falls under three phases: annexation (1796-1815), rebellion (1815-1848), and reform (1848-1945). ... with the quelling of the Matale rebellion.

A Sri Lankan forensic archaeologist says a mass grave discovered in November in the central town of Matale is roughly 25 years old.

Explore the Aluvihare Rock Temple in Matale. ... But during the Matale rebellion of 1848 many parts of the temple were destroyed, and the library with the precious collection was completely lost.

Human remains in what appears to be a mass grave unearthed in central Sri Lanka could be "the site of a crime", a forensic specialist tells the BBC.

“Even if the election were held tomorrow morning rather than on September 21, it is certain that President Ranil Wickremesinghe would secure a victory. I assure you, Mr. President, that the people of ...

The residents of Matale could get a glimpse of former and present Sri Lankan cricketers when the Sri Lanka Cricketers' Association played a friendly match at Bernard Aluvihare Stadium yesterday ...

MATALE, Sri Lanka – A Sri Lankan judge has announced that more than 150 human skulls and bones recovered from a mass grave were buried there about 25 years ago, strengthening suspicion that they ...