The history of Sri Lanka from the earliest times to the present
So Lanka an ancient civahzarinn, shaped and thrust into modern globalizing world by its colonial caperiency. With its own unique problems,many f them historical legacies,it is a nation trying to maintain a democrotic,pluralistic state structure while straggling to come to terms with  separatist aspirations.This is a struggling to come to terms with separatist aspirations.This is complex story  and there is perhaps no better person to presents it in reasoned scholarly terms than K.M. de Silva Sri Lanka's most distinguished and prolific historian