Dehianga is a village in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. It is located within

Kandy District Kandy District ( si, මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්කය, ta, கண்டி மாவட்டம்) is a district of the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Its area is 1906.3 km². Administrative divisions Ethnic ...

, Central Province, northwest of

Dehigama Dehigama is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Kandy District, Central Province. Demographics See also *List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka Central Province is a province of Sri Lanka, containing the Kandy District, Matale ...

, about from Kandy.

History

Archibald Campbell Lawrie Sir Archibald Campbell Lawrie, FRCI (8 September 1837 – 11 May 1914‘LAWRIE, Sir Archibald Campbell’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007) was a British judge in Ceylon and scholar of Scottish lega ...

's 1896 gazetteer of the province described the village as a hamlet with inhabitants of potters and some

Moor Moor or Moors may refer to: Nature and ecology * Moorland, a habitat characterized by low-growing vegetation and acidic soils. Ethnic and religious groups * Moors, Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during ...

families.

Demographics

In the 1921 census, it was recorded that out of the population of 474 people, 134, or 28% of the population, was literate (more than double the 1911 literacy rate of 13%), although only 4 were literate in English (1911: 2). 99.6% of the population practiced Islam as their primary religion, and the other 0.4% reported practicing Hinduism.

References

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* Populated places in Kandy District {{KandyDistrict-geo-stub