A NOTE From LUCY McCANN of the BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, 17 February 2026
Dear Michael,
Your publications can be found on our online catalogue SOLO by searching for your name as the author: see this list of 17 titles which includes the three titles listed below at 1, 2 and 3.A
Best wishes, Lucy
Multiple Versions
Exploring confrontation : Sri Lanka : politics, culture and history
Roberts, Michael, 1938– author.; Roberts, Michael, editor.
2
Book
Potency, power & people in groups
Roberts, Michael, 1938–
2011 | Colombo : Marga Institute | xii, 128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
3
Book
Fire and storm : essays in Sri Lankan politics
Roberts, Michael, 1938–
2010- | Colombo : Vijitha Yapa Publications | v. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
4
Book
Confrontations in Sri Lanka : Sinhalese, LTTE & others
Roberts, Michael, 1938–
2009 | 1st ed. | Colombo : Vijitha Yapa Publications | xiii, 450 p., 32 p. of plates : col. ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
5
Book
Essaying cricket : Sri Lanka and beyond
Roberts, Michael, 1938–
2006 | Colombo : Vijithat Yapa Publishers | 372 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
6
Book
Sinhala consciousness in the Kandyan period, 1590s to 1815
Roberts, Michael, 1938–
2004 | Colombo : Vijitha Yapa Publications | xx, 274 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (1 folded) ; 28 cm.
Course
7
Book
Modernist theory : trimming the printed word : the instance of pre-modern Sinhala society
Roberts, Michael, 1938– | International Centre for Ethnic Studies.
c2002 | Colombo : International Centre for Ethnic Studies | 46 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
8
Book
The burden of history : obstacles to power sharing in Sri Lanka
Roberts, Michael, 1938– | Marga Institute.
2001 | Colombo : Marga Institute | 36 p. ; 23 cm.
9
Book
Primordialist strands in contemporary Sinhala nationalism in Sri Lanka : urumaya as ur
Roberts, Michael, 1938– | Marga Institute.
2001 | Colombo : Marga Institute | 43 p ; 23 cm.
10
Book
Sinhala-ness and Sinhala nationalism
Roberts, Michael, 1938– | Marga Institute.
2001 | Colombo : Marga Institute | 33 p. ; 23 cm.
11
Book
Sri Lanka : collective identities revisited
Roberts, Michael, 1938– | Marga Institute.
1997-1998 | [Colombo] : Marga Institute | 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
12
Book
People inbetween
Roberts, Michael, 1938– | Raheem, Ismeth. | Colin-Thomé, Percy.
1989- | Ratmalana, Sri Lanka : Sarvodaya Book Pub. Services | v. <1- > : ill., maps (some folded) ; 31 cm.
13
Multiple Versions
Caste conflict and elite formation : the rise of a Karāva elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931
Roberts, Michael, 1938– author.
14
Book
Collective identities, nationalisms and protest in modern Sri Lanka
Roberts, Michael, 1938–
1979 | Colombo : Marga Institute | xxi, 573 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
15
Book
Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and nationalist politics in Ceylon, 1929-1950
Roberts, Michael, 1938–
1977 | Colombo : Dept. of National Archives | 4 v. ; 22 cm.
16
Book
Facets of modern Ceylon history through the letters of Jeronis Pieris
Roberts, Michael, 1938– | Pieris, Jeronis, 1829-1894.
1975 | Colombo : Hansa Publishers | ii, 108 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 26 cm.
17
Dissertations/Theses
Some aspects of economic and social policy in Ceylon, 1840-1871
Roberts, Michael, 1938– | University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History.
1965 | xiv, 465 leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. + portfolio (maps 2-5 ; 46 cm.)
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Impressive scholarship Michael.