A Sinhala-language account of the life of Utuwankande Sura Saradiel, written by E.T. Kannangara and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The whole text is in Sinhala, so readers will need to be comfortable in the language.
Saradiel is known to many in Sri Lanka as a heroic figure. In the historical record he appears as a friend of the poor and a man of humane instinct, someone who took up the fight against social injustice alone, and who made his name in the Kandyan hill country during the period of British rule. This book sets out the story of his life and brings that figure closer to the reader.
For buyers outside Sri Lanka, this is the kind of title that circulates widely at home and rarely abroad: a popular Sinhala retelling of a life that sits somewhere between documented history and folk memory, issued by an established Colombo publishing house that produces books in Sinhala and English. It will suit readers of Sinhala with an interest in nineteenth-century Ceylon, in the social history of the up-country districts, or in the outlaw figures who entered popular tradition during the colonial period.
- Author: E.T. Kannangara
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552103049
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