This collection of essays is meant to felicitate a versatile scholar – a renowned historian and archaeologist of South East Asia, authority on Buddhist studies, prolific writer, diplomat, social worker, indefatigable researcher, erudite scholar of ancient Sinhala, Prakrit and English, and also a poet. The 1939-born Professor S.B. Hettiaratchi: London University’s PhD, retired in 2005 as Professor of History and Archaeology from the University of ...
