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HAI Goonetilleke, aka Ian Goonetilleke: PREFACE to the booklet Those Long Afternoons. Childhood in Colonial Ceylon **

Evelyn Fredrick Charles Ludowyk Jnr was born on 16^th October 1906 in Galle, Ceylon and died on 1^st June 1985 in Colchester, England.  He became the Professor of English at the age of thirty and chose early retirement in 1956. He settled in England with his Hungarian wife Edith whom he had married in 1941. His death brought to an end a long and fruitful partnership in which their professional talents, artistic gifts, social commitment and political beliefs made common cause. Edith died on 11^th February 1987.

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Responding to requsts from two different friends, I provide a list of the articles penned on the various currents of nationalism in Sri  Lanka — studies spanning the colonial period and post-1948 politics. The list is not comprehensive. I may well have touched on pertinent political currents in some other essays. But this listing should foster a critical … and even slashing …. review of my engagments in this field in ways that could promote future scholarship.

Tamils assembled en masse at Sudumalai Amman Kovil grounds to hear Pirapaharan speak, 4 August 1987

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