Maritime Provinces (Ceylon)

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Map of Ceylon, divided into districts between 1700 and 1800.

The Maritime Provinces was an administrative region of British Ceylon from 15 February 1796 to 1 October 1833, which consisted of the maritime districts of the former Dutch Governorate of Ceylon, which was ceded to the British following the Invasion of Ceylon.[1]

The Colebrooke–Cameron Commission brought the Kandyan Provinces and the Maritime Provinces under an administrative system of a unified territory for the whole island. The reforms divided the colony into five provinces, with each province further subdivided into four or five districts on 1 October 1833.[2]

Districts

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The 1766 Treaty between the King of Kandy and Dutch East India Company, defined the boundaries of the Maritime Provinces:[1]

  1. Yapapattanama (Jaffna)
  2. Hettikulapattuwa (Chettikulam)
  3. Mannarama (Mannar)
  4. Kolamba Disawa (Colombo)
  5. Galu Korale (Galle)
  6. Puliyanduwa (Batticaloa)
  7. Trikunamale (Trincomalee)

References

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  1. ^ a b Arunachalam, P.; Sutherland, James (1910). "KANDYAN PROVINCES". The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (63): 103–123.
  2. ^ Casinader, Niranjan; Wijeyaratne, Roshan De Silva; Godden, Lee (2018). "From sovereignty to modernity: revisiting the Colebrooke Cameron Reforms– transforming the Buddhist and colonial imaginary in nineteenth century Ceylon". Comparative Legal History.