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VICTOR MELDER SRI LANKA LIBRARY 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com > THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, THEY ARE MOST WELCOME. PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You. ACQUISITIONS FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH 2024 BOOKS. Slave In A Palanquin, Colonial Servitude & Resistance in Ceylon by Nira Wickramasinghe, 2020 The Ceylon Roll of Honour, A Record of Service in the Great War, 1914-1918 – Times of Ceylon (No’s 1 – 2, Donated by Suren Ratwatte, Toorak, Vic) The Story of the Sri Lanka Muslims by V. Vamadevan, 1999. The Kandyan Wars, The British Army in Ceylon, 1803-1818 by Geoffrey Poewll, 1973. Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy, A Study in Non Alignment, by H.S.S.Nissanka, 1984. Germans in Dutch Ceylon, Vol 1, translated by ...

When Ceylon celebrated the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria-By Avishka Mario Senewiratne and Nilantha Perera Statue of Queen Victoria in Colombo Since the fall of Kandy in 1815, Ceylon significant for its innumerable resources and pivotal geographic location, became a colony of the British. Queen Victoria was British Ceylon’s 4th monarch after George III, George IV, and her uncle William IV. However, unlike her predecessors or successors, the impact Victoria created in Britain and her colonies was so paramount that even her 64-year reign has been dubbed ‘the Victorian Era’. She is associated with Britain’s great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and especially the territorial expansion of the empire. When Victoria ascended to the throne in 1837, Britain was largely a trade power. During her rule, Britain became a mighty empire and the world’s most powerful nation. Victoria remained popular in Britain as well as her colonies, throughout ...