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Sri Vikrama Rajasinha wore royalty on his sleeve even after losing his Kingdom-by P.K Balachandran The British, who had dubbed him the devil-incarnate, became his guardian after overthrowing him    Source:Dailymirror British officers salute the arrested King as the Kandyan chiefs arrest him  After almost a year’s stay in relative comfort in Colombo, on January 24, 1816, Vikrama Rajasinha, his three wives and a large retinue were put on the British warship HMS Cornwallis for the 26-day journey to Madras and thence to the Vellore fort, 138 km from Madras Six foot tall, with a bulky body, Vikrama Rajasinha found his tiny cabin in the warship a virtual torture chamber. He would make strange noises expressing despair and displeasure Vikrama Rajasinha died at 52 in 1832 of edema (swelling that is caused by fluid trapped in body tissues). When his only son died in 1842, the Nayakar dynasty of Ceylon ...