British Governors of Ceylon [Paperback] H.A.J. Hulugalle

Publisher ‏ : ‎  Vijitha Yapa Publications, Sri Lanka;  (August, 2014) Language ‏ : ‎  English Paperback ‏ : ‎  422 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎  9789556652376 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎  978-9556652376 Книга на английском языке. 130 х 200 mm. 422 стр.   Although this book was written by the author in 1963, it is of considerable value to the students of the British Period in Ceylon today. H. A. J. Hulugalle had drawn his material from valuable and authentic sources, some of which are inaccessible to students and unknown to specialists. His material, for this volume, has been published to give a clear picture of the economic, political and social development of Ceylon, (as Sri Lanka was called before 1972) , from the status of a Crown Colony to Ceylon's emergence as a Sovereign state in 1948. Instead of a dull record of dates and achievements, striking and human stories of these men and their activities arc po