A gold pocket watch that was in the possession of the last king of Kandy, Sri Wickrama Rajasinha when he was captured by the British on February 18, 1815 tells an intriguing tale with links to the ...

It was built around 1566 by Chinna Bommi Nayak and Thimma Reddy Nayak, chieftains of the Vijayanagar Empire. Ironically, King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe belonged to the same Nayak clan which built the ...