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Item British policy towards the Kandyan law: (changes to the traditional law during the period, from 1815-1833)(University of Kelaniya, 2009) Koggalage, D.T.Item Changes in the economic role of women of the Sinhalese society in Sri Lanka from the 17th century up to the 19th century(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Koggalage, D.T.Item Commitment to teaching – a need for a paradigm shift(Academic Staff College (ASC), Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 2005) Koggalage, D.T.; Dharaneeta, K.A.T.Item Confrontation of a Traditional Law with a Colonial Rule: The Kandyan Scene,1815 to 1833(4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Koggalage, D.T.The British established their power in Kandy in 1815.They commenced their rule in the Kandyan Provinces as a separate administrative entity. Two factors were behind this decision. One is the political compulsion: the British were very much careful not to make immediate reforms which may have had a negative effect on the support they received from the Kandyan nobility. Secondly, the British were bound by the Convention of 1815 in such a way that they were not in a position to bring about arbitrary changes to the existing system. Therefore, they took the position of showing the Kandyans that they would continue the existing administrative system including the indigenous legal system and the law. However, in practice, even at the beginning the British did not fully abide by their promise to retain the existing system. The aim of this paper is to examine the changes which took place in the Kandyan Law during the initial years of British rule in the Kandyan Provinces consequent to their policy. This period, i.e. the first fifteen odd years, starting from 1815 was disregarded by most of the previous researchers, who have studied the British impact on traditional customary law of the Kandyans. This was due to their intense focus on the more pronounced and influential reforms such as C.H. Cameron’s Reforms to the Judicial System in 1833. Therefore, this study pays attention to a period which was less prominent when it comes to legal history of Sri Lanka. Emphasis would be on changes which took place during this period and the manner in which those changes occurred. The research question is: when did the changes to the traditional law of the Kandyans start; was it after 1818 or 1833? In this research historical methodology was adopted making use of documents pertaining to early British rule in the Kandyan Provinces as the main primary source. The hypothesis is that although the changes to the existing law was more pronounced after 1818 and structural changes began to occur after the 1833 Reforms, in reality the changes to the law started with the Kandyan Convention of 1815 itself. The study revealed three different occasions where changes to the law were apparent. It was also concluded that these ‘minor’ changes were very much instrumental in shaking or weakening the existing law which was a key factor which facilitated the subsequent structural changes.Item Effectiveness of British Legislation Regarding Kandyan Law: The Kingdom Marriage Ordinance of 1859(University of Kelaniya, 2012) Koggalage, D.T.Item Kandyan Peasantry: The Reality and the Ideological Formation(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Koggalage, D.T.The Kandyan peasant community has been the field for several important landmark research works both in the areas of history and sociology. Professor Michael Roberts, Dr. Newton Gunasinghe and Dr. Kumari Jayawardena are pioneer researches in this area. Kandyan peasantry, from the very inception of the formation of the Kandyan Kingdom acquired a uniqueness due to the geographical location and the social structure of the Kingdom. Kandyan peasantry was quite a separate entity when compared to that of the Maritime Provinces. This uniqueness is evident from the theoretical formation of the socio- economic structure of which the peasants were a vital part. The aim of this paper is to look into the problem whether the theoretical formation of the Kandyan peasantry has corresponded with the actual existence of the peasant community of the Kandyan society. It can be said that the theoretical formation of the Kandyan peasantry based on the caste, the land-tenure and the rajakariya systems sometimes complicates the identification of the real peasantry. This is because the peasantry in theoretical formation was not essentially the cultivators in practice.Item Mural paintings as a historical source with special reference to the temple paintings of the Kandyan tradition(Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka, 2007) Koggalage, D.T.Item Nudity during the Kandyan period: a social taboo or indication of social status(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Koggalage, D.T.Item ඉතිහාසකරණයේ නව ප්රවණතා: සමාජ පරිවර්ථන අධ්යයනයෙහි ලා කාන්තා අධ්යයනය(University of Kelaniya, 2006) Koggalage, D.T.Item උඩරට නීතියෙන් නීර්ණය කරන ලද උඩරට කාන්තාවගේ ආර්ථික හා සමාජ භූමිකාව(University of Kelaniya, 2007) Koggalage, D.T.Item ස්ත්රී නිරුවත, සමාජ තහංචියක්ද නොඑසේනම් සමාජ ධූරාවලිය පිළිබඳ දර්ශකයක්ද? (මහනුවර යුගයට අයත් ප්රාථමික මූලාශ්රයයන් ඇසුරෙන් කරන ලද අධ්යයනයක්)(University of Kelaniya, 2012) Koggalage, D.T.