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STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF CEYLON FOR CHILDR - 1

CONTESTED HISTORIES

INSCRIPTION OF CEYLON - THE VAITULYA PITAKA

RAMAYANA IN SRI LANKA

SIGIRIYA - MANAGING HERITAGE WITH COMMUNITY

THOMIA

THE LAST KINGDOM OF SINHALAY

TIMELESS TRUTHS

DEAR FATHER

REBEL ISLAND

A focus on the period before 500 BCE, ‘A Lost History’ introduces a collection of historical writing from across the oceans to carry the reader on a fascinating journey through Lanka’s ancient history. Elegantly woven into the narrative are foreign accounts of the pre-historic era of Lanka, placed in a sequence of time to provoke a fresh look at the social, cultural and economic landscape that existed prior to events more formally chronicled.
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Recorded history presumes a script. Fernando’s exploration, prompted by the discovery of Brahmi script in Anuradhapura, the oldest in the subcontinent since Indus Valley civilisation, compels a reassessment of ancient history in Sri Lanka. A revelation in historiography, it could irk many historians as it proposes a reversal in the direction of the spread of knowledge and economy in the region. Others could and must expand the site towards which he has cleared a path.

A LOST HISTORY

MAHANAGA RAJATHUMA

DESHAPREMI VIVIDA LABDHIKA DAE VIRUWO

SHASANAMAMAKA AKBO RAJAWARU SAHA DESHAMAMAKA SENA

SIRI PARAKUM RAJA PARAPURA

DAKUNU INDEEYA AKRAMANA

ANANDA KUMARASWAMI MAHATHA

Veteran scholar Dr. Prashantha Perera’s latest publication, titled Cultural Symbolism is a result of a prolonged comprehensive research study conducted in the fields of Art history, Sociology, and Archaeology.  Though we are familiar with certain cultural symbols up to some extent, often we are ignorant of their origin and inherited symbolic meanings. Dr. Perera enlightens us on lesser-known or unknown meanings of many tangible and intangible cultural symbols and symbolic practices of the Sinhala Buddhist culture in a logical manner.  He has paid attention to Hindu cultural symbols and their influence on molding local cultural symbolism since the early Anuradhapura period. He explains in detail the symbols found on ancient coins and inscriptions and their role in non-verbal communication in the past.  As highlighted by Dr. Perera, a symbol could have a couple of meanings and also it could convey a completely different cultural belief when it finds a place in a different culture as a result of cultural diffusion. Dr. Prashantha Perera’s broad knowledge of the Hindu culture has enhanced the importance of this invaluable research publication.  We are confident that his effort will be recognized by the worldwide intelligentsia as well as the learned general public of the globe.
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CULTURAL SYMBOLISM

BHARATHIYA BAUDDA URUMAYA NEWATHA SOYA GENIMA

“Muslim heritage in Sri Lanka is extremely important and largely under-recognised.  Jesmil Abdul Raheem is to be commended for taking on the challenge of identifying and recording elements of Muslim heritage across the island and demonstrating the very real potential there is here for archaeologists and heritage professionals.  Ensuring that Muslim communities in Sri Lanka have the many different aspects of their long and rich heritage recorded is important not only for these communities themselves but also to show their value to others.”

THE MUSLIM HERITAGE OF SRI LANKA

THE ILLUSTRATED STORY OF ENGLAND

SEETHAWAKA RAJASINHA RAJATHUMA

PANDUKABAYA RAJATHUMA

THE LEGEND OF RAVANA

THE GREAT DAYS OF BAMBALAWATTE

A well-researched and richly readable book RAMACHANDRA GUHA SEVENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE PARTITION, and a momentous event now recedes in memory. Generations have grown up outside the shadow of the communal killings and mass displacement that shaped the contemporary history of the subcontinent. Despite being born into a family affected by the Divide, artist and oral historian Aanchal Malhotra too had thought little about the Partition until she encountered objects that had once belonged to her ancestors in an Undivided India. A gaz, a ghara, a maang-tikka, a pocketknife, a peacock-shaped bracelet, and a set of kitchen utensils: these were what accompanied her great-grandparents as they fled their homes, and through them she learnt of their migration and life before the Divide. This led her to search for the belongings of other migrants to discover the stories hidden in them. Remnants of a Separation is a unique attempt to revisit the Partition through such objects carried across the border. These objects absorbed the memory of a time and place, remaining latent and undisturbed for generations. They now speak of their owners pasts and emerge as testaments to the struggle, sacrifice, pain and belonging at an unparalleled moment in history. A string of pearls gifted by a maharaja, carried from Dalhousie to Lahore, reveals the grandeur of a life that once was. A notebook of poems, brought from Lahore to Kalyan, shows one woman s determination to pursue the written word despite the turmoil around her. A refugee certificate created in Calcutta evokes in a daughter the feelings of displacement her father had experienced on leaving Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh. Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, Remnants of a Separation tells stories from both sides of the border and is the product of years of painstaking and passionate research. It pieces together an alternative history of the Partition the first and only one told through material memory that makes the event tangible even seven decades later, lest we forget.

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