Passage: Rajasinghe II, the king of Kandy, made a treaty with the Dutch in 1638 to get rid of the Portuguese who ruled most of the coastal areas of the island. The main conditions of the treaty were that the Dutch were to hand over the coastal areas they had captured to the Kandyan king in return for a Dutch trade monopoly over the island. The agreement was breached by both parties. The Dutch captured Colombo in 1656 and the last Portuguese strongholds near Jaffnapatnam in 1658. By 1660 they controlled the whole island except the land-locked kingdom of Kandy. The Dutch  persecuted the Catholics and the remaining Portuguese settlers but left Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims alone. The Dutch levied far heavier taxes on the people than the Portuguese had done. A legacy of the Dutch period in Ceylon are the Dutch Burghers, a people of mixed Dutch and local origin. A later definition of the Burgher people of Ceylon was handed down in 1883 by the Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Richard Ottley.
How many different groups did the Dutch not persecute? How many religious groups did the Dutch not persecute? How many years after the capture of Colombo did it take the Dutch to capture the last Portuguese strongholds near Jaffnapatnam? How many years did it take after the capture of Colombo for the Dutch to control the entire island? How many years past from when the the Dutch got rid of the Portuguese to when they controlled the whole island except the land-locked kingdom of Kandy? How many years was it from when the Dutch captured Columbo and when a later definition of the Burgher  peopel of Ceylon was handed down? How many years was it from when the Dutch captured Columbo and when they captured the least Portuguese strongholds near Jaffnapatnam? How many years was it from when the Dutch captured Columbo and when they controlledthe whole island except for Kandy? How many years was it from when the Dutch captured Portuguese strongholds near Jaffnapatam and when a later definition of the Burgher people of Ceylon was handed down? How many years was it from when the Dutch captured the last Portuguese strongholds near Jappnapatam and when they controlled the whole island except Kandy? How many years was it from when the Dutch controlled the whole island except for Kandy until a later definition of the Burgher people of Ceylonwas handed down? The treaty said that the Dutch could no longer have control of what? What did the Dutch capture after 1656? What did the Dutch get when they gave up the coastal areas? Which did the Dutch capture first, Colombo or Jaffnapatnam? Who did the Dutch not persecute? Who levied lower taxes, the Portuguese or the Dutch? Who levied the lower taxes, the Dutch or the Portuguese?