{"id":148193,"date":"2025-02-22T17:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T00:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148193"},"modified":"2025-02-22T17:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T00:55:20","slug":"the-main-reason-behind-the-arrival-of-the-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/22\/the-main-reason-behind-the-arrival-of-the-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"The main reason behind the arrival of the Dutch\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

First of all, it is highly important to note, that after the incorporation of the <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC), on the 20th of March 1602; thereafter <\/p>\n\n\n\n

soon afterwards, within a month and ten days; on the 2nd of May 1602, the Dutch Admiral Joris van Spilbergen\u2019s arrival in Batticaloa, with three ships from the Dutch port of Veere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be pointed out here, that, although, through the passages of time vivid changes occurred in the body of Ceylon; yet it sustained itself as the trader’s paradise of the Indian Ocean; with its remarkable “Thearavada Trading Economy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the reason, which led the Dutch, to arrive in Batticaloa, the very moment after they incorporated the Dutch East India Trading Company as mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1602 to 1706, a hundred years later, the corruption builds up, as the reigning Dutch Governor Simons, destroyed the core essence of the Dutch role <\/p>\n\n\n\n

in Ceylon, with the 1706 Dutch Codification of the Tesawalami regulation, giving <\/p>\n\n\n\n

predominance to the Malabar caste of the Tamil people as the indigenous Tamil people, of the Northern Province of Ceylon; which gave them hope of a Tamil Eelam State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The embodiment of its practice was preserved in the unique monuments which I have managed through great and profound struggle to take it to my custody from it’s hideout in the Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Kovil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total history of it and my intentions of its preservations for public homage and education is given by me separately; in another message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha First of all, it is highly important to note, that after the incorporation of the  Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC), on the 20th of March 1602; thereafter  soon afterwards, within a month and ten days; on the 2nd of May 1602, the Dutch Admiral Joris van Spilbergen\u2019s arrival in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}