Facets of Modern Ceylon History through the Letters of Jeronis Pieris … originally published in 1976 by Hansa [on Bandaranaike era paper] and now presented as a coffee table book with a host of striking photographs that recapture the mid-nineteenth century era of capitalist expansion with all its pluses and minuses.
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CONTENTS FACETS OF MODERN CEYLON HISTORY
Introduction 3
- Kith, Kin and Career 7
III. Background of Social Change and Elite Formation in Nineteenth Century Ceylon 15
- Western Orientations 28
- The Highland Scene: Coffee Plantations vs Village Land 77
- Buffaloes, Cattle and Paddy Cultivation in the Central Highlands 82
VII. Epilogue 1
THE LETTERS OFJERONIS PIERIS
- List of letters
- The Letters, 1853 -1856 118
III. Translation of a Letter in Sinhala fromJeronis Pieris to his
sister and mother-in-law 17 September 187714
Appndices
Appendix A:Jeronis Pieris’s Cash Crop Plantation Properties as listed in Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories, 1871-91 14
Appendix B: Translation of the Memorial Presented by the Kandyan Chiefs and People Calling for Reform of their Marriage Customs, late 1858 146
Appendix C: Photographs of Selected Letters
Letter No. 3:Jeronis Pieris to George Pride, Naranhenne, Kandy, 17 December 1853 148
Letter No. 23:Jeronis Pieris toW. H. Wright, 12June 1856 149
Letter No. 10:Jeronis Pieris to S. C. Perera, Grand Pass, Colombo, 25 July 1854 150
Letter No. 25:Jeronis Pieris to Mrs. S. Soysa, Grand Pass, Panadura, 7 September 1877 152
Appendix D: Genealogy of the Hannadige Pieris Family 156
Appendix E: Genealogy of the Warusahannadige de Soysa Family 156
Appendix F: Extended Genealogy of the Hannadige Pieris Family 157
Appendix G: Extened Genealogy of the Warusahannadige de Soysa Family 166
Appendix H: Map of the Hanguranketa-Kandy-Hewaheta Localities 191
Bibliography for the works cited 192
Bibliography for the Pictorial Clusters 198
Index 199
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PLATES
vii Hannadige Jeronis Pieris, 1829-94
viii Photograph of Letter No.1:Jeronis to Louis Pieris, 30 October 1953
CLUSTER ONE – between pages 12-13
- Hanniidige Jeronis Pieris, 1829-94, seen here in mid-life
- Vintage Photograph Album in the possession of the Pieris lineage
- Jeronis Pieris as schoolboy
- Jeronis Pieris in his youth
CLUSTER TWO -between pages 42-43
- Richard Steuart Pieris, 1858-1918
- Heruy A. Pieris, 1862-1919
- Gate Mudaliyar Warusahannadige Jeronis de Soysa, 1797-1862
- Mrs.Jeronis de Soysa nee Coorey: hand painted photographic portrait
- Francesca Cooreywhen widow ofJeronis de Soysa (d.1882)
- Gate Mudaliyar Warusahanniidige Susew de Soysa, 1809-81
- Engeltina Pieris, wife of Susew de Soysa, 1825-93
- Susew de Soysa and six of his seven brothers
- Mrs.Jeronis Pieris
- Hannadige Louis Pieris
- C. H. de Soysa’s Wedding in 1863
- Charles Henry de Soysa, with his bride Catherine and his best man, Louis Pieris
- The Wedding of Louis Pieris & Cecilia de Fonseka
- Charles Henry de Soysa, 1836-90
- Lady Catherine de Soysa
- De Soysa Walauwwa,Moratuwa
- Natal House, Idama
- Panadura Walauwwa
- Bagatelle House
- Alfred House in grand exterior
- Hanguranketa Walauwwa
- Hanguranketa Church
- Hanguranketa Mission School
- St.John’s School, Panadura
- Hospital at Panadura
- St. Stephen’s Church, Marawila
- Marawila Hospital
- Church of St.John the Evangelist in Panadura
- Prince of Wales’College, Moratuwa
- Holy Emmanuel Church, Moratuwa
- De Soysa lying in home (now De Soysa Maternity hopsital for women)
- De Soysa Medical Institute &Museum
- Princess Louise Hospital, Lunawa also known as De Soysa Memorial Hospi
- The Bacteriological Institute, Colombo
- Susew &Engeltina de Soysa
- Selby House at Mutwal
- Hiinnadige Louis Pieris in London
- Louis Pieris: photographic portrait
- Revd.Joseph Marsh
- Revd. Barcroft Boake
- Sir Richard Morgan
- Charles Ambrose Lorenz
- James Alexander Dunuwille
- Interior of Alfred House
- Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
- Alfred House gold crockery
- Whist Bungalow
- Lakshmigiri
- Regina l#zlauwwa,better known today as “College House”
- The Firm ofS. C. Fernando &Bros., Kandy
CLUSTER THREE- between pages 54-55
- View of Colombo Harbour from Mutwal: Capt. O’Brien’s Lithograph, 1864
- Ships in Colombo Harbour, 1866
- The Dutch Fort &Moat, Colombo, 1864
- Bridge of Boats over the Kelani Ganga
- Bridge of Boats: Another Scene
- Hard Yards on Rough Tracks
- A Caravan of Carts
- Blasting the “Lion’s Mouth” … and along the way
- Hard Yards in Railway Construction in the Hill-Country
- “Sensation Rock”
- The Colombo Fort Terminus in the 1860’s
- A Train chugs out of the Fort Station
- Satinwood Bridge at Peradeniya
- Clearing Land for Coffee Plantations: European Imaginings
- A Felled Forest Clearing at Maskeliya
- Peacock Hill Coffee Estate in Capt. O’Brien’s Sketches, 1864
- The Aluvihare Coffee Estate Bungalow in Domestic Calm, 1868
- A Bungalow depicted by W.L. H. Skeen, 1878
- A Coffee Planter with a Body of Estate Workers
- Julia Margaret Cameron’s Image of Plantation Workers in the 1870’s
- Coffee Plants and A Coffee Plucker
- Coconut Pluckers
- Possibly an estate in the Low Country
- Working Women – Pounding Coffee on an Estate
- Working Women- Drying Coffee in Factory Yard in Colombo
- Sorting Coffee
- More Working Women (Coffee Pickers)
- Tamil Tea Estate Workers
- Working Men -A Coopering Factory
- Working Men -A Ferryman
- Workers baling cinnamon
- A “Native Bar”
- A Working Class Street in Colombo
- Chatham Street
- Lower Chatham Street
- Overview ofKandy Lake and Town in the 1880’s
- Kandy Lake
- A Street Scene, Kandy