Sinhala Walkatha Family

The earliest documented references to the Walkatha surname appear in Portuguese and Dutch land registers from the 17th‑century coastal districts of (particularly the regions surrounding Matale and Kandy ). These records, preserved in the National Archives of Sri Lanka , list “ Walakatha ” as a land‑holding family (or pannadaya ) responsible for cultivating paddy fields and cinnamon plantations—key cash crops of the era.

This essay examines the Walkatha family from three complementary perspectives: sinhala walkatha family