Nalanda College is a Buddhist school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The college was established by P. de S. Kularatne as an offshoot of Ananda College Colombo on November 1, 1925. It was an era when the demand for students to enter Ananda College Colombo was immensely high. As a result, in 1923 the then principal of Ananda College Mr P. de S. Kularatne leased the bare land adjoining to Ananda College playground located in Campbell Place and moved some classes of Ananda. Those classrooms were in a humble bamboo-shaded hut. This wing of Ananda was under the administratorship of Mr E. W. Perera and the then director of education Mr Robinson was highly impressed the way it was functioning and was approved as a new institution. Later Mr Kularatne bought further lands close by and built up a new building comprising 16 class rooms; out of that two were used as laboratories and two others as the staff room and the principal's office. Mr. E. W Perera was appointed the head master and Venerable Balangoda Ananda Maitreya became the first Dharmarcharya. It was the 39th anniversary of Ananda College on 1 November 1925 that Mr Kularatne registered this offshoot of Ananda as a separate school. Mr. L. H.