Bandarawela history.

History of the Bandarawela area is coming
from the time of great Sinhalese King
Valagamba who fell back and regrouped in
the Dhowa region to fight against Chola
invaders .
During the period of British colonial era,
the town occurred rapid development of the
infrastructures and human resources due to
tea plantations and migration of the British
and local people to the area. A lot of past
evidences can be seen belongs to that
period. There is few buildings remaining
which were built in the British colonial
period with British architectural influences
such as the Bandarawela Hotel, the Cargilles
building, the Tennis club, etc.
Bandarawela is one of the Sinhalese
majority territories in Sri Lanka before the
establishment of tea plantations under
British administration. Nowadays there is a
mix culture due to the migration of Tamils
to the tea plantation sector as laborers
from India under British colonial times.
Those Tamil community had been got their
full citizenship during the UNP Government
period in 1978 to 1988 by Affidavit Act no
39 of 1988. [1] The records of the other
ethnic groups in this area are negligible.
Bandarawela famous as having been the
camp in Ceylon of the Boer prisoners of war
and some of the buildings erected for the
temporary accommodation of the captives
are now used in connection with the
permanent camp health recuperation
established here for the Navy, military and
volunteers. The major fact is that Bandarawela is most popular town area for flowers.