Tikiri Abeyasinghe was a distinguished Sri Lankan historian and professor in the Department of History at the University of Colombo. Renowned for his meticulous scholarship on the Portuguese period in Sri Lanka, he authored several seminal works, including Portuguese Rule in Ceylon, 1594–1612 and Jaffna Under the Portuguese. His research contributed significantly to the understanding of Sri Lanka’s early modern history, particularly its political and cultural interactions with European powers.
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Editor’s Note: This essay has been adapted from an article originally published in the Journal of the Sri Lanka Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1973, Vol. 1. Minor editorial adjustments have
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