The Kandyan Convention (Treaty of 2 March 1815)

Government of the United Kingdom and the Chiefs of the Kandyan Provinces · Primary text, multiple archival reproductions; cf. SLNA

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Treaty by which sovereignty over the Kandyan Kingdom passed to the British Crown by agreement with the Kandyan chiefs. Cited on /case/british-responsibility as the earliest treaty-recognised constitutional act in the design arc that runs through Colebrooke–Cameron (1833), Donoughmore (1931), and Soulbury (1947) to the 1948 Citizenship Act.

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