The title is Sinhala for "Drought and the Farmer", and the book itself is written entirely in Sinhala. There is no English text in it, so a reader who does not read Sinhala will not be able to use it.
M. U. A. Tennakoon writes on drought and rural life in Sri Lanka's Dry Zone. His doctoral work at Flinders University of South Australia was later revised and published by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in its research series as Drought Hazard and Rural Development: a study in perception of and adjustment to drought. That study looked at settlements in the transitional belt between the North Western arid zone and the North Central dry zone, examining how farming households perceived drought and adjusted to it, and it drew on the author's own familiarity with Dry Zone cultivators and irrigation practice.
That background is the context in which this Sinhala title sits: an author whose research concerns the farmer, the seasons and the problem of water in the drier districts of the island, writing here for a Sinhala readership rather than an academic one abroad.
The publisher, Godage International Publishers, is an established Colombo house issuing books in Sinhala and English across scholarship, fiction and general interest, and a good deal of its Sinhala list covers Sri Lankan agriculture, village life and social research of this kind.
Of interest to Sinhala readers working in agriculture, rural development, geography or irrigation, and to anyone building a Sinhala-language collection on the Dry Zone and its farming communities.
- Author: M.U.A.Thennakoon
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 500
- ISBN: 9789553097262
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