Dharmaraja College Archives

Sir D.B. Jayatilaka Memorial Dharmaraja College Archives, Kandy

Preserving the History, Values and Traditions of the Dharmaraja College

• Dharmaraja College Archives was established in 2002 with the guidance of the National Archives.
• The Archives collect the documents of Dharmaraja to preserve them for posterity.
• The Archives is the official custodian of the documents of the college.
• Collecting more than 130 years of Dharmaraja history and maintaining it is an enormous task.
• Therefore Dharmaraja College Archives have started this website as a private Wikipedia so that all Rajans can collaboratively complete relevant pages of the College's History. Please find/make the relevant pages for you and update them.
• Each Rajan should have a profile page. Please register yourself and complete your profile.
• Other than the profile page you can contribute to complete the pages such as teams information, if you have information.
• If you wish to contribute or have comments, please get in touch with the President, Dharmaraja College Archives Foundation through archives.dharmaraja@gmail.com
• We are improving this site continuously as the data collected from 2002 is to be entered and also new data is being collected. Therefore some of the pages could be empty.

Why history is important? Quotations about preserving the history

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.-Marcus Garvey

Study the past and you would define the future. — Confucius

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. — Edmund Burke

A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. — Michael Crichton

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell