This anthology collects, for the first time, some of the earliest writing in English by women in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). From British and American women travellers such as Bella Woolf, Constance Gordon Cummings and Carolyn Cornor who wrote of their…

The fiction and poetry published in English by Sri Lankan women living in the island and outside of it between 1948-2000 has been documented in this publication.

The publication is on the Tamil writings of the colonial period. It has two sections. One deals with literature fiction, and the other with non-literary writing.

This book is a study of the immensely rich verbal arts of lullabies and dirges that encompasses the socio-linguistic, ethnographic, anthropological and sociological aspects of Sri Lanka’s folklore.

The book makes and attempt to capture both the structural and emotional disturbances that affect women and children during times of war. While undertaking a sociological inquiry into the lives of the women and children, inevitably it enters into a…

The book is divided in to four parts. The first part deals with the origin, history and application of Thesawalamai. The second part contains the Law of persons. The third part discusses the Law of property and fourth part treats…