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Updated 29 days ago
- Age: 139 years
- ID: 29014625/119
Ananda College, Colombo 01000, Sri Lanka
Ananda is home to a variety of sports including cricket, swimming, track and field, basketball, rowing, water polo, hockey, gymnastics, badminton, tennis, table tennis, rugby, football, volleyball, baseball, karate, wushu, kabaddi, archery, weight and power lifting, boxing, mountaineering, chess and carrom. Notably, the school has produced a large pool of military personnel to the country owing to the distinct discipline inculcated into cadetting. Students are given the opportunity to choose army, navy or police cadetting... Housing 37 youngsters in Pettah, the-then English Buddhist Academy was founded in 1886 by Col. Henry Steel Olcott and was opened to provide Buddhist students in Ceylon with a holistic English education. Ananda College came under the purview of the Government of Ceylon in 1961, following which it was... A need of the era during the British colonial period, an English education for the children of majority Buddhists of the country became a reality, when on 1st..