Channa Wickremesekera’s Books on Sri Lanka’s Past …. & Beyond-by Michael Roberts
Source:Thuppahis
Channa Wickremesekera’s Publications
Channa Wickremesekera is the son of the late Percy Wickremesekera, an acquaintance of mine from Peradeniya Campus days and a ‘Trot’ activist who migrated to Australia. Channa lives in Melbourne. I got to know him when I was working on my book on Sinhala Consciousness in the Kandyan Period¸1590’s-1815 (which came out in 2003 …………………… https://www.amazon.com/Sinhala-Consciousness-Kandyan-Period-1590s/dp/9558095311).
Books: On Sri Lankan Conflicts & Politics
A Tough Apprenticeship: Sri Lanka’s Military Against the Tamil Militants 1979-1987, Self-published, 2017
The Tamil Separatist War¸ New York: Routledge, 2016
Kandy at War: Indigenous Military Resistance to European Expansion in Sri Lanka 1594–1818, New Delhi: Manohar, 2004
Best Black Troops in the World: British Perceptions and the Making of the Sepoy 1746–1805, New Delhi: Manohar, 2002
Fiction
Tracks, Self-published, 2015
Asylum, Self-published, 2014; Palaver Books, 2015.
In the Same Boat, Self-published 2010.
Distant Warriors, Perera-Hussein, Colombo, 2005.
Walls, Self-published 2002.
