SINHALAYO

This is the story of the Sinhala people working in peace and war under an unbroken monarchy during two millenniums and a half. The story begins with the neolithic culture represented by the megalithic monuments found in the Island, and runs through the fusion of this culture with an immigrant Indo-Aryan civilization from North India.

                   This mingling with an Indo-Aryan people and the adoption of their language and ways of life mark the beginning of the Sinhala race. Dr. Paranavitana who for thirty years worked and lived among the ruins of what was once a complete civilization, describes here with physical evidence the components that went to build the grand structure of a way of life.