The 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots (also known as the anti-Muslim riots of 1915 or the 1915 Buddhist Mohammedan riots or the 1915 Ceylonese riots) was a widespread...

movement which grew into the independence movement following 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots, in which the Senanayake brothers were imprisoned without charges...

Since 1915, many of them have stemmed from ethnic tensions between the Sinhalese majority and minority Tamil and Moor populations. 1883 Kotahena riots (Kotahena...

Regiment of the British Indian Army under martial law during the 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots. Convicted in a three day Field General Court Martial under the...

The Sri Lankan anti-Muslim riots were a series of religious riots targeting Muslims that began in the town of Ampara located in Sri Lanka on 26 February...

list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on ethnic, sectarian, xenophobic, and racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified...

1976 anti-Muslim violence in Puttalam was a series of organised violent events by Sinhalese mobs against the Muslim population of Puttalam in northwestern...

minority Muslim population in a series of communal riots, one of which was the Bhagalpur riots of 1989, which has led to the death of 900–1,000 Muslims and...

Regiment of the British Indian Army under martial law during the 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots. Convicted in a three-day Field General Court Martial under the...

Regiment of the British Indian Army under martial law during the 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots. Convicted in a three-day Field General Court Martial under the...

agency run by John Silva. In 1910, his mother dies. Following the 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots, John Silva's agency was closed and he returned to Koggala. He...

police magistrate. He was arrested by the British during the 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots. Molamure was elected to the Legislative Council in the 1924...

poetry was seen as seditious by the British, and during the 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots, the police inspector general ordered that she be surveilled...

imprisoned and sentenced to death under martial law during the 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots, sentence was later reprieved by the Governor following a petition...

Year Date Event 1915 1915 Sinhalese-Muslim riots 1931 Donoughmore Commission: Established universal franchise in Ceylon, and the State Council of Ceylon...

The Sri Lankan Armed Forces which was almost exclusively made up of Sinhalese ethnicity during the 30-year-long Sri Lankan Civil War and the two JVP...

increased to eight (three Europeans, one Low Country Sinhalese, one Kandyan Sinhalese, one Tamil, one Muslim and one Burgher). The Legislative Council was reformed...

ISBN 978-0-415-63002-3. Vittachi, T. Emergency '58: The Story of the Ceylon Race Riots Swamy, M. R. Naranayan. Tigers of Lanka: From Boys to Guerrillas, p. 11...

Kingdom into the hands of the British Empire. It ended over 2300 years of Sinhalese monarchy rule on the island. The British rule on the island lasted until...

undergo two jail terms during his life time, both after Sinhalese Muslim riots that took place in 1915 and 1918. His work as a Buddhist and independence activist...

Javanese Buddhists who intermarried into the Sinhalese population. Sri Lankan scholars suggest that the Sinhalese population possesses a notable Malay connection...

for his methods. Hundreds of Sinhalese Buddhists were arrested by the British colonial government during the Riots of 1915. Those imprisoned without charges...

German light cruiser SMS Emden. Facing the riot of 1915 which broke out between Sinhalese Buddhists and Muslim Ceylon Moors, he authorized the use of draconian...

reforms in education and customs involving women; the second phase, from 1915 to Indian independence, when Gandhi incorporated women's movements into the...

imprisoned in 1915 along with his brother Edmund Hewavitarne (who later died in prison), D. S. Senanayake, D. R. Wijewardena following the Muslim riots. Fearing...

legislature to the Tamils with other non-Sinhalese, and the Sinhalese, where the 25% Tamils, 75% Sinhalese [citation needed], would lead to only about...

and writer The Leading Characters in the Political Turmoil of Sinhalese-Muslim Riots of 1915 by Sachi Sri Kantha Rajah Rutnam — Sri Lanka’s first immigrant...

lower-class Muslim economic dependency, reinforced this sense of insecurity", and because of Muslim resistance, "each year brought new riots" so that "by...

spoken by the Sri Lankan Malays, Javanese Sri Lankans, and among some Sinhalese in Hambantota. Today, the number of speakers of the language have dwindled...

Census Reports classified the population into seven groups viz. Europeans, Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays, Veddahs and others. From the 1911 onwards "Nationality"...