Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Translation and Transliteration
• Introduction
• Part One: The Colonial Era
• 1. Nationalist Thought and the Sri Lankan World
• 2. Brothers of the Pure Sinhala Fraternity
• 3. Wartime Romance
• Part Two: The Postcolonial Era
• 4. Divergent Standards of Excellence
• 5. For the People
• 6. Illusions to Disillusions
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index