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Mahâ Dissâvas of Kingdom of Kandy | |
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Member of | Amātya Mandalaya |
Reports to | The Monarch |
Appointer | The Monarch |
Monarchical Sri Lanka | |
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Monarch | King |
Queen consort | Randolis |
Sub king / Heir apparent | Yuvaraja |
Concubinage | Yakadadoli |
1st Prime Minister | Pallegampahê Mahâ Nilamê |
2nd Prime Minister | Udagampahê Mahâ Nilamê |
Chief Secretary | Mahâ Mohottâla |
Provincial Governors | Mahâ Dissâvas |
Royal Household Officers | Dugganna Nilamês |
Sons of Chiefs | Bandâras |
The Mahâ Dissâvas was a Great Officer in the Amātya Mandalaya, or Sinhalese Council of State, in the Sinhalese Kingdoms of monarchical Sri Lanka. Like many of the existing high offices at the time it had combined legislative and judicial powers and functioned primarily equivalent to that of a Provincial governor.[1] The office of Dissava was retained under the successive European colonial powers, namely the Portuguese Empire, the Dutch East India Company and the British Empire. A Dissava was the governor a province known as a Disavanies. With his province, the Dissava held both executive and judicial authority.
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