Chance Encounters: A Pot Pourri of Books on Sri Lanka

Michael Roberts

I have  a large stock of books and an even larger stock of typed up paper material in my messy study.  Looking over some of the books I came across some that I had not read or even glanced at. I present a selection of a half-dozen that aroused my interest …. arranged in chronological order.

I invite commentary on any of these books by personnel who happen to have read them or had some friendship with the authors.

Bryce Ryan with LD Jayasena ad DCR Wickremasinghe: Sinhalese Village, Coral Gables, Florida, 1958 ….229 pp

G. Uragoda: A History of Medicine in Sri Lanka: from earliest times to 1948, Colombo,1987 …………..

Sandaruwan Madduma Bandara: Lionsong. Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict, Isuru Printers, 2002 ……………… ISBN 955-97966-0-7 …… 735 pp

Raja C Bandaranayake: Betwixt Isles. The Story of the Kandyan Prisoners in Mauritius, Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2006 …I SBN 10-955-1266-41-2

Minoli Salgado: Writing Sri Lanka. Literature. Resistance and the Politics of Place, London & NY, Routledge, 2007 ……… ISBN 10-0-415-36418-8 hb,…& .. pb

K. Paramothayan: Edge of the Lagoon. Some Perspectives of Jaffna, New York, iUniverse,Inc, 2007, pb

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