The Kandyan Convention is a unique document for the national and international community. It was signed on March 2, 1815 in the palace in the city of Kandy. It was a document prepared for an agreement between the British Empire and the Kingdom of Kandyan. Sir Robert Brownrigg, the governor of the British colonies and territories on the island of Ceylon, signed on behalf of the Kandyan Kingdom on behalf of the Kandyan Kingdom. It contained 12 clauses by which the King of Great Britain, His Majesty George III, was endowed with sovereignty and sovereignty of the whole country. The Sinhalese translation of the Convention makes it clear that it was an agreement between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Sinhalese, which meant the whole island and its maritime areas and the ocean around it. This historic convention had only 12 clauses and was adopted in Kandy as a royal proclamation of March 2, 1815. In a dispatch from Lord Bathurst of London of 30 August 1815 to Governor Brownrigg, it was said that His Royal Highness offered to express to you his general recognition of the principles of liberal policy which guided you in acceding to the Convention of Annexation of the Kingdom of Kandy. I cannot hide from you that the satisfaction of His Royal Highness would have been more complete if the 5th article of the Convention, which refers to the superstitions of Boodho, had been formulated in terms that would be less vulnerable to erroneous constructions……..

The term “untouchable” in Article 5, as I do not imagine, would be interpreted as excluding their efforts to spread Christianity in Ceylon, through the dissemination of the writings or through the just and discreet homily of its officials, would be in contradiction with the principles according to which Her Majesty`s Government acted uniformly, To protect oneself from such an evil. Under Portuguese rule, Kandy allied himself with the Dutch; Under Dutch rule, she sought help from the British. Since the British acquisition of Ceylon in 1796, Kandy has been thrown into its own resources. The British saw the continued independence of kandy as an obstacle to the development of their trade and communication network in Ceylon. The first British attack on Kandy in 1803 was a failure.