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The Early History of Ceylon and Its Relations With India and Other Foreign Countries

by G. C. Mendis
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121233392
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 133
  • Original Price: INR 280.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 282 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

A short book that attempts to provide a ready guide to the early and medieval history of Ceylon. It starts with the prehistoric age and goes up to the reign of Parakarambahu VIII (1484-1518 A.D). The book has 6 Chapter and they describe a different stag

Dr Garett Champness Mendis, to give his full name, received his elementary and secondary education at Kingswood College Kandy which was founded by another pioneer in Sri Lankan History, L.E. Blaze. He was also a teacher in his old school and it was there that his love for history began. He was born to a Methodist family of Moratuwa, his father being a priest of their church. His first book The Early History of Ceylon was based on the Thesis he wrote for his Phd which he obtained in 1931.Dr Mendis next wrote ‘Our Heritage’ in collaboration with Prof S. A. Pakeman. Ceylon and the oriental section of the book was written by him. Among his outstanding works were The Early History of Ceylon (1940). An Historical Criticism of the Mahavamsa (1931). An Addendum to the Mahavamsa (1950 and 1959) Ceylon under the British Rule (1944) Ceylon Today and Yesterday : Main Currents of Ceylon History (1957) Problems of Ceylon History (1966) and The Colebrooke-Cameron Papers: documents on British Colonial Policy in Ceylon 1796-1933 edited by Dr Mendis (1956).

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