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A Modest Arsenal: Gunpowder Weapons in Sri Lanka 1500-1820-by Channa Wickremesekera Source:Tambapannipublishers AUTHOR: Channa Wickremesekera FORMAT: Paperback AVAILABILITY: Published by Tambapanni Academic Publishers, 2024  ISBN: 978-624-5529-13-1 This book explores the adoption and use of firearms and artillery by Sri Lankans, the impact of these weapons on warfare and their incorporation into the military organisation in the island. Using a wide range of sources, it delves into the technological, economic and political conditions and considerations that influenced these processes. The period covered is roughly 1500 to 1820. This corresponds approximately to the period spanning the first contact between Europeans and Sri Lanka in 1505, and the last major armed resistance to European power in the island in 1817-18. Author Channa Wickremesekera is a military historian based in Melbourne, Australia. He obtained his PhD in History from Monash University and is the author of four other books on Sri Lankan and South ...

Nov 24, 2024 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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Novella by Sri Lankan writer – Channa Wickremesekera – A new Edition of the 2016 novel – TRACKS This is to introduce a novella by a talented Sri Lankan writer in Melbourne, Channa Wickremesekera. It is also one of the few works of fiction by a Sri Lankan writer dealing with same-sex relationships. A novel about friendship, growing up, and unrequited love. One of the few works of fiction on same-sex relationships from a Sri Lankan writer in Australia. Shehan has a crush on Robbie, his classmate and friend. Robbie is straight and finds his friend’s afections unsettling. But then, that is all he has going for him in his turbulent life. When they both realise it, it is too late. The novella unravels a powerful plot set against Anglo, Arab and Sri Lankan socio-cultural contexts. Through the deeply private story of the development and degeneration of the highly charged sexual crush ...

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eLanka Newsletter – 14th August 2024 – 4th Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Photos’ from the OFF THE BEATEN TRACK CDF PATIENT TRANSPORT ANNUAL BALL 2024 – 10th August – Photos thanks to Trevine Rodrigo Health & Views August 1st issue 2024 – By Dr. Harold Gunatillake Sri Lanka: Our Foreign Minister Deshamannya Luxman Kadirgamar Who Molded Us-by Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne Paintings by Laknath Peiris – A Profile Review by eLanka Watch “The Ceylon Journal – A glimpse of the first volume” on YouTube Reminiscing Dilani Abeywardena award winning actress while at pinnacle of fame migrated to New York -on her fruitful endurance in the past two decades – By Sunil Thenabadu Footprints on Water: The Untold Journey of WT Stace from Colonial Ceylon to American Philosophy OUR AFRICAN SAFARI IN 2012 – Kenya – By ...

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eLanka Newsletter – 07th August 2022 – 2nd Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter “PONDERISMS” – by Des Kelly A young girl from Sri Lankan second generation in Australia ends up being famous actress on Sri Lankan TV SRI LANKA NEWS – JULY 2022 Sulochana Weerasinghe a thespian award winning actress having conquered the stage ,mini and silver screens in a relatively short period with recognition from foreign nations too – by Sunil Thenabadu Ceylon Tea named as Official Tea Supplier for Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Two Books, Two Backstories – By GEORGE BRAINE FIRST JET AIRCRAFT TO LAND IN SRI LANKA Compiled – By Gp Capt Kumar Kirinde, SLAF (Retd) Transformation of Galle Face green by Dr Harold Gunatillake Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 117 05 08 2022 “Kota Vehera” – commemoration of a royal birth – By ...

Aug 7, 2022 Posted by In Articles, eLanka Newsletters Tagged , , , , ,
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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 ...

Aug 5, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged , ,
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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. ...

Aug 3, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged
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