The National Women’s Dance Troupe of Sri Lanka practices for their performance of an extremely rare Pahim Path Mangalya dance on Aug. 9. Photo: Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal ...

“The Esala Perahera goes on for 10 days and during this time all of us work hard. Being a Kandyan dancer is not an easy task. “Kandyan dancing in Sri Lanka has improved to a great extent but many of ...

Mantillake arrived at RC in August from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, where he headed the ... Mantillake trained in Kandyan Dance, a traditional Sri Lankan dance native to Kandy.

The Kandyan Convention, an agreement between the British Colonial rulers and Kandyan chiefs, was signed in 1815. It annexed the Kingdom of Kandy to the British Empire, giving Britain full control ...

better known as the Kandyan Convention or Treaty, was not signed on March 2, 1815, as is widely believed, but only read for the benefit of the Mahanayake of Malwatta the Venerable Kobbekaduwa Sri ...