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Water levels of Kelani Ganga, Gin Ganga, Maha Oya on the rise
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Posted on March 7th, 2021
By P. K. Balachandran/Ceylon Today
Colombo, March 8: India-Sri Lanka trade goes far into the past, to the Early Historic Era in fact. The island had also played the additional role of being a transit point, a hub, in the trade between the Eastern and Western worlds.
The story of India-Sri Lanka trade in ancient times is told by Prof. K. Rajan of Pondicherry University in his book: Churning the Indian Ocean: Maritime Trade of Early Historic Peninsular India.”
Rajan says that if the similarities between South India and Sri Lanka are striking it is partly because they were part of a single land mass in the Pleistocene Epoch. India and Sri Lanka were connected by a natural land bridge across the Palk Strait. The Pleistocene Epoch is defined as the time period till about 11,700 years ago.Stone artefacts found in Lanka which are identical to Indian artifacts have been dated between 45,000 to 80,000 BP (BP is ‘Before Present’ wit
LankaWeb – Hub of ancient East-West trade
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Posted on February 28th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Bandaranaike had
advocated an independent foreign policy for Sri Lanka long before he became
Prime Minister. In 1952, Bandaranaike speaking in Parliament during the debate
on the Throne speech said that Sri Lanka has so far failed to formulate a well defined and independent
foreign policy. Sri Lanka should play an important and constructive role in
international affairs. She should be neutral in power politics. Sri Lanka
should occupy a position in South Asia like that of Switzerland in Europe, he said.
In 1954,
Bandaranaike persuaded Sri Lanka Parliament to
approve Panchaseela. The
Panchaseela policy advocated (i) mutual respect for each other’s territory and