1. Racism and Portuguese Colonial Sri Lanka
During this period the Portuguese attempted to acclimatise the native population to Western customs in order to stem the flow of any potential resistance to their rule and gradually eradicate the local cultural and religious ways. ... Whilst some in high places and positions of authority such as the Kandyan prince Vijaya Pala may have accepted Portuguese customs and traditions by adopting them as their own (3), the majority of the civilian population resisted Western religion and culture. ... " (3) Peiris states that Vijaya Pala's conversion to Catholicism was "a grave political...
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