WHAT DOES NILAME MEAN?

His residences and estates belonging for the Nilame were confiscated. The Nilame's wife and 4 sons had been despatched to Kalutara and his mother and sister to Colombo in retaliation from kinfolk.He was a distinguished leader in the Uva rebellion of 1818 right after he joined the rebels whom he was despatched to suppress because of the British. The