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E. Sreedharan was born on 12 June 1932 in present-day Karukaputhur, Palakkad District, Kerala, India into a Hindu Malayali family [11] [12] to Keezhveettil Neelakandan Moosath and Ammaluamma. [13] Sreedharan's primary education was from Government Lower Primary School Chathannur near Pattambi in Palakkad district.
Alappat Sreedhara Menon (18 December 1925 – 23 July 2010), known as A. Sreedhara Menon, was an Indian historian from Kerala. [1] He is best known as the State Editor (1958–68) of Kerala District Gazetteers (1961–1975).
Nilakanta Sastri was born in a Telugu Niyogi Brahmin family, [2] in Kallidaikurichi near Tirunelveli, on 12 August 1892. [3] He completed his FA at the M.D.T Hindu College, Tirunelveli and his college education at the Madras Christian College.
Geiger's Sinhala student G. C. Mendis was more openly skeptical about certain portions of the text, specifically citing the story of the Sinhala ancestor Vijaya as being too remote historically from its source and too similar to an epic poem or other literary creation to be seriously regarded as history.
The historiography (i.e., the chronology of kings, battles etc.) given in the Mahavamsa, and to that extent in the Dipavasma, are believed to be largely correct from about the time of the death of Ashoka.
Piyadasa Sirisena used the novel as a medium through which to reform society and became one of the leaders in mass communication in the early part of the 20th century. Piyadasa Sirisena is widely considered as the father of Sinhalese novel. [1] [2] Some of his novel were reprinted even in the 21st century.
Mother M. Josephine Bastide took charge of the new community in November 1870. The first building of the school was located where the Kurunegala Post Office stands today. Classes began in this building. Sisters lived in two houses, one was then known as Daniel’s House. By 1871, classes in both English and Sinhala medium were begun.
The earliest extant Sri Lankan Tamil literature survives from the academies of the Sangam age dated from 200 BCE. [2] Īḻattup pūtaṉtēvaṉār was one of the earliest known native classical Eelam Tamil poets from the Sangam period, hailing from Manthai, Mannar District, Sri Lanka. [3]