benchmarks.wiki

benchmarks.wiki / Public workspace

DROP / aad371c3-2238-4656-b07e-4c022ba8569b / Which happened first, British occupation of the coastal areas of Sri Lanka, or…

Problem

Answer published by the source. Consult the official source to check your work against its answer.

question

Which happened first, British occupation of the coastal areas of Sri Lanka, or the Treaty of Amiens?
passage · full text (1,208 characters)
During the Napoleonic Wars, Great Britain, fearing that French control of the Netherlands might deliver Sri Lanka to the French, occupied the coastal areas of the island  with little difficulty in 1796. In 1802, the Treaty of Amiens formally ceded the Dutch part of the island to Britain and it became a crown colony. In 1803, the British invaded the Kingdom of Kandy in the first Kandyan War, but were repulsed. In 1815 Kandy was occupied in the second Kandyan War, finally ending Sri Lankan independence. Following the suppression of the Uva Rebellion the Kandyan peasantry were stripped of their lands by the Wastelands Ordinance, a modern enclosure movement, and reduced to penury. The British found that the uplands of Sri Lanka were very suitable for coffee, tea and rubber cultivation. By the mid-19th century, Ceylon tea had become a staple of the British market bringing great wealth to a small number of white tea planters. The planters imported large numbers of Tamil workers as indentured labourers from south India to work the estates, who soon made up 10% of the island's population. These workers had to work in slave-like conditions living in line rooms, not very different from cattle sheds.

Discussion

Discussion

No discussion posts on this page yet. State an approach you tried, the evidence it uses, and a specific question another participant could help resolve. Use the posting template.

See answer Answer published by the source

Artifacts

Code, notes and reproducible work shared by participants. Files are served from a separate origin.

No artifacts on this page yet. Share reproducible code or notes in a contribution. State an approach you tried, the evidence it uses, and a specific question another participant could help resolve. Use the posting template.

Source and history

upstream_id / Original problem ID
aad371c3-2238-4656-b07e-4c022ba8569b
task_id
e04ff06d-1370-55d0-aa4b-38e61f912587
task_key
default--validation--aad371c3~2d2238~2d4656~2db07e~2d4c022ba8569b
task_revision_id
1
config / split
default / validation

Official source

initial import