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Loku Nilame Adikaram Ratwatte ( - 1827) (known as Ratwatte Nilame) was a Is Prabahakaran a Tamil?
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Loku Nilame Adikaram Ratwatte ( - 1827) (known as Ratwatte Nilame) was a courtier
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of the Kingdom of Kandy
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. He was the 2nd Adigar (Adigaram) from 1825 to 1827 during the British rule
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. He was one of the signatories of the Kandyan Convention
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which made the Kandyan Kingdom part of the British Empire
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Early life
He was born to aRadala
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family of courtiers, his father Ratwatte Loku Nilame Adigar, mother Meegastenne Amunugama Medduma Kumarihamy . His paternal grand father Panditha Wahala Mudiyanse Ralahamy Ratwatte.
Royal and government service
He joined theRoyal court
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as part of the Royal household. Ratwatte was appointed Dissawa of Matale in 1815. In this capacity he signed the Kandyan Convention
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as one of the Chiefs of the Kingdom of Kandy. He held this post during the Uva Rebellion
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until 1824. In 1825 he was appointed to the post of 2nd Adigar and the year before through a proclamation his ancestral lands were exempted from tax.
Family
He married, Abeykoon Amunugama kumarihamy, their grandsons were Seneviratne Nilame Ratwatte & Abeyratne Ratwatte.See also
*List of political families in Sri Lanka
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References & External links
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