Sri Lanka [Ceylon]

The original inhabitants of Ceylonese island, now called Sri Lanka, as far as we know were Veddas. Their presence on the island goes back tens of thousands of years, with many living in a forest belt that separated the northern Tamil population from…

This remarkable postcard shows Shankardas Swamigal's Tamil drama group on a visit to Ceylon [Sri Lanka] in 1890, although the postcard is from about 15 years later.

The tea industry was so important to Ceylon, that postcards illustrated each step in the process of picking, drying and transporting tea to the harbor at Colombo from where it was shipped abroad.