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This study would not have been possible without the financial and intellectual support of a number of institutions and individuals. It gives me great pleasure to express my gratitude to them here.
An earlier version of this study was presented as my Ph.D. dissertation at Yale University. From Yale’s Concilium for International Area Studies I received a Dissertation Research Fellowship for archival research. Subsequently I received a Summer Faculty Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to do further research in Sri Lanka. I have also received funds from Brandeis University to help cover cost of typing photocopying, etc. The Center for European Studies at Harvard University provided me with an office during the summer of 1981 when I was doing revisions for this book I express my thanks to all these institutions for their generous support.
While at Yale I had the good fortune to work with a committee of very helpful and congenial thesis advisors: Professors. Wendell Bell (chairman), John Low-Beer, James Scott, and Keith Hart. My own capacity to complete the first version of this work depended to a large extent on their support and to them I express my deep gratitude. I wish particularly to thank Wendell Bell for helping me develop a more critical attitude towards my own biases and assumptions; to John Low-Beer for his intellectual support throughout the period of my graduate studies at Yale; to Jim Scott for his patience and encouragement which enabled me to get started and develop this project; and to Keith Hart for his great interest and tremendous support without which it would have been impossible for me to continue. I worked closely with Keith in formulating some of the central arguments of this study and to him I owe an enormous intellectual debt.
As it will become apparent to the reader, this book has depended to a great extent on the painstaking historical research of several generations of Sri Lanka scholars. Among them I wish specifically to thank Dr. Michael Roberts, who provided me with a most insightful and extensive commentary on an earlier draft of this work. Many of the criticisms and observations made by him have been considered in many more places than I can begin to mention and I believe that Michael Roberts’ comments have helped strengthen the arguments I make make in this book. I wish also to thank Dr. Kumari Jayawar dena for her useful comments on an earlier draft and her encouragement and, to Mr. U. K. Sumanandasa for sharing ideas and information relevant to this work. My father, Mr. D. S. Bandarage, read an earlier draft and gave me valuable comments which I have accepted with great appreciation.
My appreciation also goes to my colleagues at Brandeis, Peter Conrad, Paula Rayman and Irv Zola, for their helpful advice in bringing this study to fruition and to Chitra, Shanti, and Dilan Abeygoonawardena for their hospitality when I lived in their home while doing research in England. Thanks are also due to Elizabeth Bouche for typing the manuscript and to Paul Solstrom for doing the index for the book with much care and interest.
Finally, I would like to thank my teachers at Visakha Vidyalaya, Bryn Mawr College and Yale University for their encouragement at different stages of my intellectual development.
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