What the Europeans did to Sri Lanka

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From their first arrival in 1505 to Sri Lanka's independence in 1948, European empires shaped the island, and the rest of Asia. This video looks at Sri Lanka's colonial experience, how it was transformed and what stayed the same. https://buymeacoffee.com/lostincontext Sources: -A History of Sri Lanka, K. M. de Silva -Elephant Complex; Travels in Sri Lanka, John Gimlette -The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, Gordon Weiss -The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History, Sanjeev Sanyal -This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, Samanth Subramanian + Various news sources, especially The Economist 00:00 Intro 01:00 Portuguese arrival 02:23 Portuguese Ceylon 04:12 Dutch Ceylon 07:00 Colombo to Hikkaduwa 11:00 British arrival 12:14 'Indian' Tamils 13:15 British Ceylon 16:33 Independence 17:27 Hikkaduwa to Galle 18:37 Galle Protest 21:39 The President resigns 23:21 Next video