Reading Sri Lankan Society: Selected Essays, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (2007)
 




As part of the Theertha publication program funded by Ford Foundation grant in 2007, Colombo Institute published three volumes in the Sinhala language containing 35 key research based essays that address issues of society, politics and culture in Sri Lanka.  The majority of  the essays are essentially translations of originals that have already been published but are relatively inaccessible to most Sri Lankans because they are written in English and published in journals or books not easily accessible in the country.  The disciplinary areas where these essays have been drawn vary from sociology, social anthropology and history on the one hand and art history and cultural studies on the other.