A Sinhala-language account of seven men who took up the defence of country and people against colonial invasion, each of them, in the telling here, holding his own life to be the lesser thing. Lal Premanath De Mel gathers their life stories into a single volume, following each figure through the episodes of courage and resistance that attached to his name.
The book is written entirely in Sinhala and is published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. Readers without Sinhala will not be able to use it; for those who do read the language, it offers these seven lives narrated in sequence rather than treated as a general history of the colonial period.
The approach is narrative rather than analytical — the material is presented as the incidents and exploits that make up each man's story, told for readers who come to these figures as heroes of resistance. It will suit Sinhala readers at home and abroad with an interest in the island's long record of opposition to foreign rule, and families looking for accounts of these figures in their own language.
- Author: Lal Premanath De Mel
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552103834
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