{"id":44944,"date":"2015-06-24T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44944"},"modified":"2015-06-24T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T22:38:10","slug":"a-closer-look-at-the-fall-of-sinhala-in-1815-monthly-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/06\/24\/a-closer-look-at-the-fall-of-sinhala-in-1815-monthly-public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Closer Look at the Fall of Sinhala in 1815&#8221; -Monthly Public Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Royal Asiatic Society\u00a0of Sri Lanka<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2>&#8220;A Closer Look at the\u00a0Fall of Sinhala in 1815&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Monthly Public Lecture<\/p>\n<h3>by Gamini Gunawardane<\/h3>\n<h3>MPA (Master in Public Administration)<\/h3>\n<h3>John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (Mass)<\/h3>\n<p>Since this year marks 200 years after the termination of a 2300 year unbroken history of the line of Kings in Sinhala and its sovereignty. The author examines closely the attendedant circumstances that may have contributed to the deposition of the last king of Kandy, through a re-scrutiny of the available material both by British written accounts as well as traditional Sinhala sources available.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday, 29th June 2015 at 5.00 p.m. Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium<\/h2>\n<h3>No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07<\/h3>\n<p>ALL ARE WELCOME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Asiatic Society\u00a0of Sri Lanka &#8220;A Closer Look at the\u00a0Fall of Sinhala in 1815&#8221; Monthly Public Lecture by Gamini Gunawardane MPA (Master in Public Administration) John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (Mass) Since this year marks 200 years after the termination of a 2300 year unbroken history of the line of Kings in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44944","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=44944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}