India House (Colombo)

India House, located at 36-38 Galle Road, Colombo, is the official residence in Colombo for the Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka.[1][2]

The building was built in the early 1900s as part of the estate of Charles de soysa, whose descendants later sold the property around 1927 to the Imperial Bank of India, which was later purchased by the Indian Government in 1956. It is a colonial style villa/bungalow, with large gardens located along Thurstan Road, once part of the Alfred house estate.[3] It is guarded by personnel from the Border Security Force.

References
  1. "Kautilyan machinations and Medamulana Machiavelli". Daily Mirror. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  2. "PM Narendra Modi meets Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo". DNA India. 14 March 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  3. Gandhi, Gopal; Laki; Sansoni, Dominic; Silva Wijeyeratne, Gehan de (2002). India House, Colombo : Portrait of a Residence, Seventy Five years of History and Home Life. Vishva Lekha Publishers. pp. 3–5. ISBN 978-955-599-278-7.

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