{"id":129247,"date":"2024-01-28T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=129247"},"modified":"2024-01-28T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T17:00:23","slug":"history-of-colombo-pettah-by-sukumar-shan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/history-of-colombo-pettah-by-sukumar-shan\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Colombo Pettah ! -By Sukumar Shan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">History of Colombo Pettah ! -By Sukumar Shan<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=3535753430022064&amp;set=gm.7315363955168423&amp;idorvanity=163317957039761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-129250 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fcmb2-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/420947311_3535753426688731_6592414335467396809_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=c42490&amp;_nc_ohc=Ijc2ZTumDwcAX8OOJA0&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fcmb2-2.fna&amp;oh=00_AfAiCBCR5U5kUv-zyI-IBOFHeGyS85g6elU0IN-dEpVqiQ&amp;oe=65BC37B1\" alt=\"colombo pettah\" width=\"600\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Source :\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=3535753430022064&amp;set=gm.7315363955168423&amp;idorvanity=163317957039761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Sri Lankan Planters (SLP) Official FB page<\/span> <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Pitakotuwa\u2019 in Sinhala\u00a0 an Pura kottai in Tamil means \u2018outside the fort\u2019. That is obviously how the Sinhala term for Pettah was coined to distinguish the area outside Fort. Pettah is an Anglo-Indian word from the Tamil \u2018pettai\u2019 introduced by the British to the area, which was identified by the Dutch as the \u2018oude stad\u2019 or old town. During the Portuguese period, the roads in Pettah had been narrow and crooked. The Dutch had replaced these with straighter and broader thoroughfares. Main Street had been in existence even during the time of the Portuguese who had called it \u2018Straight\u2019. It had linked Fort with Pettah as it does today. The Dutch named it \u2018King\u2019s Street\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Pettah market was always a popular place where traders did business, even at the time of the Dutch. Here is a typical description of the Pettah market in Dutch times: \u201cThe Dutch churchyard is in the middle of the city, enclosed with a wall, on which a Malabarian school stands. On the outside of the churchyard there is sold, all the week long, silks, stuffs, and linen, by the Moors and Persians; and all sorts of fruits, dried fish, onions, sugar and rice by the Malabarians, Maldivians, Cingalyans (Sinhalese) and other inhabitants of Colombo\u201d. This description indicates that traders were from various races and communities. Colombo was a cosmopolitan place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">When the British started attacking the Dutch, the British soldiers attacked from the north of Colombo with the support of their ships from the sea. They crossed the Kelani river on bamboo rafts without opposition, captured Korteboam and reached the Pettah through Kayman\u2019s Gate. Colombo was captured by the British in 1796.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Unlike today, Pettah was a residential area in the early days. There were many fine houses, trim gardens and shady walks. What a different picture from what we see today? The houses were usually coloured bright yellow with bands of red or orange round the doors or windows. Most of the wealthy descendants of the Portuguese and Dutch lived in the Pettah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"> \u00a0Pettah was described as \u201cneat, clean, regular, and larger than Fort\u201d at the beginning of the 19th century\u201d. Five streets, each half a mile in length, run parallel to one another; and the same number intersect them at right angles\u201d. This plan is valid right up to today. There are five cross streets linking Main Street and Olcott Mawatha. They are all full of shops mainly those of wholesale traders.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the streets have been named after the trades that were carried out in them. Barber Street is an example. Chetty Street and Moor Street have been named after the communities that lived in them. Messenger Street was named after the messenger boys who worked in colonial firms. The Dutch had called this street \u2018Rue de massang\u2019 because masang trees grew in plenty here.\u00a0 From Sunday Times LK. photo credit to Lankapura<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Romaine Gray<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Very interesting..thank you for sharing\u2026..so love these old pictures .<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of Colombo Pettah ! -By Sukumar Shan Source :\u00a0Sri Lankan Planters (SLP) Official FB page \u00a0\u2018Pitakotuwa\u2019 in Sinhala\u00a0 an Pura kottai in Tamil means \u2018outside the fort\u2019. That is obviously how the Sinhala term for Pettah was coined to distinguish the area outside Fort. Pettah is an Anglo-Indian word from the Tamil \u2018pettai\u2019 introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[42153,60337,34113],"class_list":{"0":"post-129247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-history-of-colombo","9":"tag-history-of-colombo-pettah","10":"tag-pettah","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>History of Colombo Pettah ! -By Sukumar Shan - eLanka<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pitakotuwa\u2019 in Sinhala an Pura kottai in Tamil means \u2018outside the fort\u2019. 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