Michael Roberts
After discovering the Lorenz letters in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society in the 1980s I worked on the history of the island in the ninetenth cenury-and-thereafter with aid from Percy Colin-Thome and Ismeth Raheem in a book which apeared as People Inbetween under the imprint of Sarvodaya Book Publishing Services in 1989. One of its central themes is embodied in a chapter entitled “Colonial Transitions: The Development of Colombo’s Hegemonic Power.”
As central supports in favour of this thesis, I drew on the knowledge and skills of personnel from the old Department of Geography at Peradeniya in the 1960s who were teaching then in the 1980s in Colombo: namely, Kusuma Gunawardena and Percy Silva.
Their graphic work in four maps composed in pursuit of my suggestion captures the lineaments of my thesis in eye-catching and graphic form. Do please take them in.
Volume of Net Migration from Distrcit of birth to District of Enumeration by more than 10,000 migrants
This is not merely a picture of the yesterday. It is my conviction that our island political order today has to take note of the weightages illustrated by these ‘pictures’ and to re-work the system of electoral representation so that the money-bags in Colombo are given greater representation upfront in ways that place them in responsible positions with their faces clearly marked — rather than hidden away in murky patronage cellars or skyscaper niches.
The Coastal Waters of Sri Lanka and Southeastern India
Is there any possibility to know more information about Dr. Percy Silva and Prof. Kusuma