Complete History of Sri Lanka

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CREDITS:
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Charts, Maps & Narration by Matt Baker

Animation by Syawish Rehman

Audio Editing by Jack Rackam

Tea Leaf Trust video by Damian Prestidge and Bethan Dixon Bate

Intro music "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0.

[rileychristensen]

This is probably the most anyone's ever spoken about the history of Sri Lanka on youtube

[cheltooktribefreethinker]

Love our srilanka brother and sister from Himalayan Nepal 🇳🇵…

[kumudinieschmidt]

5:43 Correction: Lord Buddha didn't go to heaven. But attained pirinivan pama which means 'cease to exist after death'

[jasminelalita]

Oh and I'm so glad you loved Sri Lanka I've always been proud to come from such a beautiful island with such friendly welcoming people ☺️💜

[hrishikeshricky]

This is the greatest video ever made. Words can’t describe how wonderful this Canadian man has done to articulate the deep history of Sri Lanka. I’m tamil and Sinhalese and I will donate for my people - we are United together

[shouvikchakraborty]

Love Srilanka my ancestral brothers and sisters from West Bengal, India ❤️

[MrDaskon]

This is way better than 11 years of history education in Sri Lankan schools. Lol.

[sampathsris]

As a Sri Lankan it shames me to watch that last part of the video. We the privileged in Sri Lanka has turned a blind eye on these hard working people, who incidentally help to source the dollars we use to order the most mundanely unnecessary things on eBay. Happy to donate to this cause.

And I think the school is doing absolutely the correct thing by teaching the youth English/IT. English became a status symbol in the country due to the long British colonial rule, so while some would call it neo-colonization you can't really ignore the ground reality. These youth are getting the best package that can change their lives and their standing in their communities in the shortest possible time. Well played.

[Sheldaschannel]

Wow, you've lived through some of the darkest moments of our island's history. I too grew up in the early 2000s. On behalf of all Sri Lankans, our eternal gratitude to you Matt! Hopefully, one day you'll return to see the warm smiles of students whose life you helped change.

(I've followed your channel since the 50K sub days and saw you mentioned sri lanka in another video but didn't know you lived here that long :) )

[tammijatti]

This was wonderful. I am happy to have donated. I’m a history buff, and my roots are in India and Pakistan. I’ve learned so much about Indian history, but knew very little of the history of Sri Lanka. I know more now. And that makes me very happy. Thank you for this video.

[shalinimahalingam]

I am a Sri Lankan Tamil born in the UK half way through the Civil war so I didn't really understand what was going on and was often only told one side of the story. It was really interesting hearing the events from a purely historical and non biased standpoint.

[mkp_]

Buddha didn’t go to heaven he achieved the NIRVANA

[bork]

I never thought someone would make a historically accurate family tree for my country, this has been a pleasant surprise

[guileniam]

Love from India beautiful country Sri Lanka

[gajababasnayake]

This is probably the greatest documentary I’ve seen about Sri Lankan history !!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 good job !!

[niroshSA]

The best teacher I ever had, so good to hear your voice which brings lot’s of memories ❤️

[MaduTheImaginator]

So nice and surprised to see someone outside Sri Lanka doing such a great detail study and analysis of Sri Lankan history and culture. It also helps us to see how others see us with an unbiased eye. Thank you very much!

[tayperrygagianajepsenlordl]

This was sooo good. Dude this deserves a million views. Love from West Bengal to Sri Lanka

[ankaralion]

Love the Sinhalese people from Nepal 🇳🇵 (land of buddha)

[Ragdll]

Even though I'm a Sindhi, I believe the story of the entire subcontinent is part of an essential heritage we should all know about. I'm often saddened that we don't discuss southern and northeastern histories enough. While North India is certainly important, these "frontier" regions are often filled with interesting stories that steered the fate of the entire subcontinent.