Canals and streams were wrecked and plantations and fields ended up wrecked to starve the rebels. The British as well as their helpers slaughtered and ate the villager's cattle.Martial Legislation was declared in Kandy and also the bordering provinces and two Military divisions were despatched to Uva straight away after the news attained the Govern

His properties and estates belonging to the Nilame were being confiscated. The Nilame's wife and four sons ended up sent to Kalutara and his mother and sister to Colombo in retaliation from relatives.He was a popular chief with the Uva rebellion of 1818 just after he joined the rebels whom he was despatched to suppress because of the British. The r