The king of Kandy soon realizes that …
Years: 1540 - 1683
The king of Kandy soon realizes that he has replaced one foe with another and proceeds to incite rebellion in the lowlands where the Dutch hold sway.
He even attempts to ally the British in Madras in his struggle to oust the Dutch.
These efforts end with a serious rebellion against his rule in 1664.
The Dutch profit from this period of instability and extend the territory under their control.
They take over the remaining harbors and completely cordon off Kandy, thereby making the highland kingdom landlocked and preventing it from allying itself with another foreign power.
This strategy, combined with a concerted Dutch display of force, subdues the Kandyan kings.
Henceforth, Kandy is unable to offer significant resistance except in its internal frontier regions.
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Sinhalese people
- Buddhism
- Dutch people
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Islam
- Portuguese people
- English people
- Franciscans, or Order of St. Francis
- Jaffna, or Aryacakravarti, Tamil Kingdom of
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Kotte, Sinhalese Kingdom of
- Portuguese Empire
- Kandy, Sinhalese Kingdom of
- India, Portuguese State of
- Sitawaka, Sinhalese Kingdom of
- Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
- East India Company, British (The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies)
- Dutch East India Company in Indonesia
- Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company")
- Ceylon, Dutch
Topics
- Colonization of Asia, Portuguese
- Portuguese Conquests in India and the East Indies
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Jaffna kingdom, Portuguese invasion of
- Portuguese-Dutch Wars in the East Indies
- Dutch-Portuguese War
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Years: 1540 - 1683
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Sinhalese people
- Buddhism
- Dutch people
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Islam
- Portuguese people
- English people
- Franciscans, or Order of St. Francis
- Jaffna, or Aryacakravarti, Tamil Kingdom of
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Kotte, Sinhalese Kingdom of
- Portuguese Empire
- Kandy, Sinhalese Kingdom of
- India, Portuguese State of
- Sitawaka, Sinhalese Kingdom of
- Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
- East India Company, British (The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies)
- Dutch East India Company in Indonesia
- Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company")
- Ceylon, Dutch
Topics
- Colonization of Asia, Portuguese
- Portuguese Conquests in India and the East Indies
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Jaffna kingdom, Portuguese invasion of
- Portuguese-Dutch Wars in the East Indies
- Dutch-Portuguese War
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions