A work of cultural and historical writing on the Sinhala past, issued as the first volume under this title by Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and English.
The author, Prof Anurada Senawirathna, writes here in English rather than Sinhala, which matters for two kinds of buyer. Scholarship on Sinhala culture is often published in Sinhala only and stays out of reach for readers abroad; an English-language treatment of the subject by a Sri Lankan academic is a different proposition from a foreign survey written at a distance. Readers outside Sri Lanka can approach it directly, without translation.
The title signals a set of reflections rather than a single continuous narrative, and the volume numbering indicates part of a wider undertaking on the same subject.
It will suit readers with a standing interest in Sri Lankan history, anthropology and cultural studies — students, university and institutional libraries, and Sri Lankans overseas building a shelf of writing about the island from writers based there. Anyone ordering from abroad should note that books of this kind, published locally in Colombo for a domestic academic readership, rarely reach general bookshops outside Sri Lanka.
- Author: Prof Anurada Senawirathna
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: English
- Pages: 388
- ISBN: 9789552068010
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