Genre search:Biography & Memoir

The Audacity of Hope : Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream

by Barack Obama
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
United States, politics and government, race relations
Status
Available
Call number
E901.1.O23A3

The Travels of Marco Polo : Translated into English from the Text of L.F. Benedetto

Paper Book, 2001
Tags
travel accounts
Status
Available
Call number
G370.P9P6413

Leonard Woolf: A Biography

by Victoria Glendinning
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
biography
Status
Available
Call number
JA94.W6 G54

Bones around my neck : the life and exile of a prince provocateur

by Tamara Lynn Loos
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
Sri Lanka, Ceylon, Prisdang, colonialism, Buddhism
Status
Available
Call number
DS578.32.P75L66 2016

Ashoka in Ancient India

by Nayanjot Lahiri
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
history, archaeology, ancient India, biography
Status
Available
Call number
DS451.5.L35 2015

Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England

by Steve Jones
Paperback, 2009
Tags
natural history, evolution, biology
Status
Available
Call number
QH31 .D2 J76

Journey for Justice : the life and work of Rev. Fr. Michael Rodrigo, OMI: Interfaith Dialogue in Action for Empowering the Rural Poor of Sri Lanka

by Nandini Gunewardena
Paper Book, 2017
Tags
biography, ethnography, poverty, rural studies
Status
Available
Call number
BX4700.R63P54

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century

by Ross E. Dunn
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
travel accounts, Islamic empire, medieval history
Status
Available
Call number
G93.I24D86

Ashoka: The Search For India's Lost Emperor

by Charles Allen
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
history, ancient India
Status
Available
Call number
DS451.5.A218

Growing : an autobiography of the years 1904 to 1911

by Leonard Woolf
Paper Book, 1961
Tags
history, colonialism, Jaffna, Kandy, Hambantota, civil service
Series
Autobiography of Leonard Woolf (2)
Status
Available
Call number
JA94.W6A28 1975

May her likes be multiplied : biography and gender politics in Egypt

by Marilyn Booth
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
women, Egypt
Status
Available
Call number
CT21.B52

Locations of Buddhism : colonialism and modernity in Sri Lanka

by Anne M. Blackburn
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
history, historiography, religion
Series
Buddhism and Modernity
Status
Available
Call number
BQ988.U63B53 2010

Brother Number One : A Political Biography of Pol Pot

by David P. Chandler
Paper Book, 1999
Tags
Cambodia, history, Southeast Asia
Status
Available
Call number
DS554.83.P65C43

Woolf in Ceylon : An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904-1911

by Christopher Ondaatje
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
19th century, 20th century, travel accounts
Status
Available
Call number
JV1075.063

Tea and empire : James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon

by Angela McCarthy
Paper Book, 2017
Tags
Ceylon, colonialism
Status
Available
Call number
HD9198.S722M38 2017

Apparitions of the self : the secret autobiographies of a Tibetan visionary : a translation and study of Jigme Lingpa's Dancing moon in the water and Ḍākki's grand secret-talk

by Janet Gyatso
Paper Book, 1998
Tags
biography, China, Tibet, Lamas
Status
Available
Call number
BQ966.I32965A3

Confronting History : A Memoir

by George L. Mosse
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
United States, biography, 20th century
Status
Available
Call number
D15.M668A3

A Long Watch : War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka

by Ajith Boyagoda
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
civil war, LTTE, history, social history
Status
Available
Call number
DS489.86.B69A3

Uncivil War

by Indran Amirthanayagam
Paperback, 2013
Tags
poetry, Sri Lanka, civil war
Status
Available
Call number
P58601.M57O53

Rescued from the nation : Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist world

by Steven Kemper
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Buddhism, modernity, Sri Lanka, Buddhist monks, biography
Series
Buddhism and Modernity
Status
Available
Call number
BQ950.H37K46

The doomed king : a requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinha

by Gananath Obeyesekere
Paper Book, 2017
Tags
history, colonialism, colonial knowledge
Status
Available
Call number
DS489.73.S74O24 2017

Rendering Unto Caesar: A Fascinating Story of One Man's Tenure under Nine Prime Ministers and Presidents of Sri Lanka

by Bradman Weerakoon
Paperback, 2005
Tags
history, politics and government, Ceylon Civil Services, biography
Status
Available
Call number
JQ656.Z1W44

The odyssey and living legacy of Sieur de La Nérolle : the French lieutenant of of the expedition escadre de Perse to Ceylon in 1672

by Yasmin Rajapakse
2018
Tags
history, biography, 17th century, France, diplomatic history
Status
Available
Call number
DC59.8.S72 R35

Rabindranath Tagore: The Singer and His Song

by Reba Som
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
literature, poetry, music
Status
Available
Call number
PK1727.M87S56

Gandhi in his time and ours : the global legacy of his ideas

by David Hardiman
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
India, modern history
Status
Available
Call number
DS481.G3H276

The view from Serendip

by Arthur C. Clarke
Paper Book, 1977
Status
Available
Call number
PR6005.L36Z52 1977

The Seasons of Trouble : Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War

by Rohini Mohan
Paper Book, 2014
Tags
civil war, war, peace, Tamils, Muslims, conflict
Status
Available
Call number
DS489.85.M64

The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane

by Beatrice Forbes Manz
Paper Book, 1989
Tags
14th century, 15th century, Asia, conquest, biography, history
Series
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization (1989)
Status
Available
Call number
DS23.M28

The Road To Peradeniya

by William Sir Ivor Jennings
2005
Tags
autobiography, Sri Lanka, higher education, Britain, colonial studies
Status
Available
Call number
LA2375.G72J466

Indonesian Destinies

by Theodore Friend
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
history, Southeast Asia, Islam, culture, politics
Status
Available
Call number
DS644.F69

Patronage and politics in the Victorian empire : the personal governance of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon (Lord Stanmore)

by C. W. Newbury
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Great Britain, colonies, history, administration
Status
Available
Call number
DA17.S7N49

Island of Blood : Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and other South Asian Flashpoints

by Anita Pratap
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
Sri Lanka, India, Afghanistan, conflict, identity, rebellion, Asian studies
Status
Available
Call number
DS337.P73

Memoirs of Osmund Jayaratne

Hardcover, 2004
Tags
autobiography, Sri Lanka, activism, politics and government, academia
Status
Available
Call number
QC16.J39A3

A Humane Judge- A biography of Sir Thomas Edward de Sampayo

by Rienzie Weereratne
2004
Tags
biography, Sri Lanka, legal history
Status
Available
Call number
KPS110.S26W44

From empire to commonwealth : reflections on a career in Britain's Overseas Service

by John O'Regan
Paper Book, 1994
Tags
Sri Lanka, civil service, Kandy, Colombo, Nuwara Eliya, Trincomalee
Status
Available
Call number
DA17.O74A3 1994

Understanding the Muslim Mind

by Rajmohan Gandhi
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
India, 20th century, Pakistan, Bangladesh, biography
Status
Available
Call number
BP63.I4 G36

A.P. de Zoysa : Combative Social Democrat and Buddhist Reformer in 20th Century Sri Lanka

by Kumari Jayawardena
Paper Book, 2012
Tags
intellectual history, religion, class, biography
Status
Available
Call number
BQ950.E96J39

Mirza Ghalib: A Creative Biography

by Natal' I. A. Il'inichna Prigarina
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
poetry, biography
Status
Available
Call number
PK2198.G4Z83213

Before Taliban : Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad

by David B. Edwards
Paper Book, 2002
Tags
Saur revolution, Pech uprising, South Asian studies
Status
Available
Call number
DS371.2.E38

Life and times of W. J. T. Small in Sri Lanka

by Jī. Pī. Vī Sōmaratna
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
biography, Methodist, Sri Lanka, missionary
Status
Available
Call number
BV1470.3.S63S66

The life and times of Christian David

by Jī. Pī. Vī Sōmaratna
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
biography, Ceylon, Jaffna, education
Status
Available
Call number
BV3277.D38.S662013

A nice Burgher girl

by Jean Arasanayagam
Paper Book, 2006
Tags
literature, Sri Lanka
Status
Available
Call number
PR9440.9.A68Z464 2006

N. U. Jayawardena, the first five decades

by Kumari Jayawardena
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
biography
Status
Available
Call number
HG1552.J39J39 2008

Lost Victory : The Rise & Fall of LTTE supremo, V. Prabhakaran

by Raj K. Mehta
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Sri Lanka, civil war, terrorism, biography
Status
Available
Call number
DS489.86.P73M44

The Biography of the Buddha

by K. D. P. Wickremesinghe
Paper Book, 1972
Tags
Buddhism, Buddhist studies, biography
Status
Available
Call number
BQ882.W5

This Inscrutable Englishman : Sir John D'Oyly, Baronet, 1774-1824

by Brendon Gooneratne
Paper Book, 1999
Tags
biography, Great Britain, foreign relations, diplomatic history, Sri Lanka, Kandy
Status
Available
Call number
DA506.D69G66

Selected Journalism

by H.A. J. Hulugalle
Paperback, 2004
Tags
biography, Sri Lanka
Status
Available
Call number
PN5449.S75Z36

Pathways to the Peak : Remarkable Stories from Pioneering Sri Lankan Women

by Dinusha Panditaratne
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
women, South Asia
Status
Available
Call number
DS489.3.P36

Memoir of Mrs. Harriet L. Winslow: Thirteen Years A Member Of The American Mission in Ceylon

by Harriet L. Winslow
Hardcover, 1987
Tags
biography, Norwich, Ceylon, Jaffna, Calcutta
Status
Available
Call number
BV3277.W5A3

Early Feminists of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

by Bharati Ray
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
biography, Bengal, women's studies
Status
Available
Call number
HQ1742.A3 R29
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