{"id":125308,"date":"2023-11-25T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=125308"},"modified":"2023-11-25T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T08:15:37","slug":"michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-<span style=\"color: #800080;\">by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88737 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Roberts\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MICHAEL ROBERTS PAPERS, MAINLY ON SRI LANKA \u2026\u2026MSS 0031 AT = UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE LIBRARY <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaide.edu.au\/library\/special\/mss\/roberts\/transcripts%20list\" rel=\"nofollow\">HTTPS:\/\/WWW.ADELAIDE.EDU.AU\/LIBRARY\/SPECIAL\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ADELAIDE-UNI-1-150x150.jpg?resize=315%2C315&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PHILIP-GUNAWARDENA-1.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Philip Gunawardena<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ER-LEACH-22-150x150.jpg?resize=162%2C162&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Series 1: Transcript Fil<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Aluwihare, Sir Richard\u00a0 68 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Blood, Sir Hilary\u00a0 62 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dyson, E.T.\u00a0 46 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Ferguson, G.H.\u00a0 51 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Gimson, Sir Franklin\u00a0 84 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Goonewardena, Leslie\u00a0 34 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Hartwell, Sir Charles\u00a0 45 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Leach, Frank\u00a0 127 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Lucette, E.H.\u00a0 34 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Miles, G.C.\u00a0 58 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mulhall, J.A.\u00a0 65 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Newnham, H.E.\u00a0 71 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Nihill, J.H.B.\u00a0 22 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Roberts, T.W.\u00a0 89 p. **<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Rodrigo, Edmund\u00a0 54 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Sandys, M.K.T.\u00a0 38 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Stevens, F.G.\u00a0 23 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Strong, A.N.\u00a0 180 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Tilney, C.E.\u00a0 41 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Wirasinha, V.L.\u00a0 53 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"(Leonard_Woolf_Transcript.pdf, 5MB)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaide.edu.au\/library\/special\/mss\/roberts\/Leonard_Woolf_Transcript.pdf\">Woolf, Leonard<\/a>\u00a0 30 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Woolley, Sir Charles\u00a0 45 p.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Comments on E. Leach\u2019s book\u00a0<em>Pul Eliya\u00a0<\/em>\u00a087 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(various correspondents, arranged alphabetically<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Comments on interviews\u00a0 200 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(various correspondents, including both those for whom transcripts are available and many others, arranged alphabetically)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Curricula vitae<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Collins, Charles\u00a0 2 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Fernando, S. Shelton C.\u00a0 1 p.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Naish, R.B.\u00a0 1 p.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Philip Gunawardena interviewed by T.B. Subasinghe: first transcripts<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Lists of questions for interviews and background on personnel (2 folders)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Confidential letters G.L. Davidson to M.W. Roberts and information 1966-67<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">MS letter 1966 from Sir Edmund Leach re permission to quote from\u00a0<em>Pul Eliya<\/em>, with letters University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies re interviews<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">** Also includes Thomas Webb Roberts\u2019 Memoirs, C.V., comments on the interview, answers to questions and unrecorded information compiled by Michael Roberts in 1966. Plus copies of family data and photographs, letters from T.W. Roberts, obituaries and appreciations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">*************************<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>A SPECIAL NOTE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The ROHP tapes and all the papers above are also available with the Roberts Mss at the\u00a0<strong>National Library Services Board<\/strong>\u00a0in the heart of Colombo on Torrington Rd [old name) alongside the National Archives\u00a0 [contact Mr Welimuni Sunil for details at\u00a0<a class=\"rABsFf RffVmb AL18ce\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"mailto:sunilnldsb@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"From your Google Contacts\" data-tooltip=\"From your Google Contacts\" data-tooltip-position=\"top\">sunilnldsb@gmail.com\u00a0<\/a>,,,,].<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>A SIDELINE NOTE that is PERTINENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Having described the inspirations for this project while at Oxford in 1965 and indicated how the Barr Smith Library\u2019s SPECIAL COLLECTIONS unit has facilitated access to the recorded interviews so that readers\/researchers can access the data, I proceed here to (A) list the categories of personnel whose experiences were tapped April\/May 1966 and circa 1969. The list of those interviewed can be accessed in a pdf file referenced at the end of this document as well as this reference in the University of Adelaide:\u00a0 \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/digital.library.adelaide.edu.au\/dspace\/handle\/2440\/83263\">https:\/\/digital.library.adelaide.edu.au\/dspace\/handle\/2440\/83263<\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In Britain:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In Ceylon (yet to become Sri Lanka):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I was teaching in Department of History at Peradeniya University from March 1966 to mid-1975. Most of this work was exacting because it was in the Sinhala medium and the marking of scripts was particularly onerous. However, I may have received some research grants from Peradeniya University to assist my trips to Colombo over week-ends and during vacation-time \u2013for most of the Ceylonese public servants were located in its environs. I was also in the happy position of having two sisters, Dodo Sirimanne and Estelle Fernando, in Colombo to provide a home-base for my research endeavours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>As critical, nay vital, was the comfort and support provided by my wife Shona Roberts \u2013not only seeing to home comforts but in the work of transcribing some of the interviews<\/strong>.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0Since the interviews were recorded in old-fashioned tapes, this task was, as the Aussies say,\u00a0<strong>hard yakka.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[2]<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sHona-Kim-Maya.jpg?resize=300%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Yesteryear-at-Peradeniya-.jpg?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Kim, Shona &amp; Maya \u2026. and the young ones in our first car<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A particular dimension of this body of oral research demands clarification. My historical dissertation work had focused on British agrarian policies and their impact in the mid-19th century. As a university man I was exposed to the products of eminent scholars on contemporary Sri Lankan that focused on the impact of British rule in the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century and on the colonisation schemes launched by DS Senanayake in the dry zone. Thus, the book\u00a0<em>The Disintegrating Village<\/em>\u00a0as well as Ralph Peiris\u2019\u00a0<em>Sinhalese Social Organisation<\/em>\u00a0(1956) were facets of my background knowledge. So, too, were the detailed ethnographic findings of such anthropologists as Edmund R Leach,<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\"><strong>[3]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and Nur Yalman; while Marguerite Robinson presented paper at Peradeniya incorporating her fieldwork in villages in the Kandyan hills at some point in the 1960s and I recollect having her visit our home at Siebel Place for a chat and a meal at one point.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\"><strong>[4]<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">These details are presented in order to clarify why and how I chose to focus on particular aspects of Leach\u2019s findings during his village study of\u00a0<em><strong>Pul Eliya<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in Anuradhapura District \u2026.. and to subject these accounts to exacting examination. YES, examination and critical response from those public servants (both British and Sri Lankan) who had experience of the dry zone villages, the colonisation schemes and the working of the Land Development Ordinance of 1935.\u00a0<strong>This highly specific and focused investigation was not conducted orally<\/strong>.\u00a0It was on paper and by post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I consider these results (the documents) to be among the most important of the whole Roberts Oral history Project. They can also be presented wholesale and immediately \u2013 a Thuppahi item that will follow this item.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Brow, James 1978\u00a0<\/strong><em>Vedda villages of Anuradhapura: The historical anthropology of a community in Sri Lanka<\/em>, University of Washington Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Farmer, BH 1957\u00a0<\/strong><em>Pioneer Peasant Colonisation<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Leach, Edmund R. 1961\u00a0<em>Pul Eliya. A Study of Land Tenure and Kinship,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0CUP<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Peiris, Ralph 1956\u00a0<\/strong><em>Sinhalese Social Organisation<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Robinson, Marguerite 19??\u00a0<\/strong>Political Structure in a Changing Sinhalese Village, CUP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>University of Ceylon Press 1957\u00a0<\/strong><em>The Disintegrating Village<\/em>, University of Ceylon Press Board.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">YALMAN NUR 1967<strong>\u00a0<em>U<\/em><em>NDER THE BO TREE: STUDIES IN CASTE, KINSHIP, AND MARRIAGE IN THE INTERIOR OF CEYLON<\/em>,<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0****************<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>END NOTES<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0Since Maya was born in February 1967 Shona\u2019s work was amid minding both Kim and Maya and running our home. Indeed her typing aid continued way into the 1970s. Since the recordings were on spools this task was no sinecure \u2026.and demanded work from me as well in listening and crosschecking the transcripts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0The yakka, or yucca, grows and survives in arid and deserted landscape. See\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yucca\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yucca<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0Edmund Leach had been one of the scholars assigned to read my doctoral dissertation and therefore was part of my interview board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2023\/11\/22\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library\/#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\">[4]<\/a>\u00a0This was after she had presented a paper at Peradeniya university on her ongoing field work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis MICHAEL ROBERTS PAPERS, MAINLY ON SRI LANKA \u2026\u2026MSS 0031 AT = UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE LIBRARY HTTPS:\/\/WWW.ADELAIDE.EDU.AU\/LIBRARY\/SPECIAL\/ Philip Gunawardena Series 1: Transcript Fil Aluwihare, Sir Richard\u00a0 68 p. Blood, Sir Hilary\u00a0 62 p. Dyson, E.T.\u00a0 46 p. Ferguson, G.H.\u00a0 51 p. Gimson, Sir Franklin\u00a0 84 p. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,42710],"tags":[57912,26952,57913,57914],"class_list":{"0":"post-125308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-michael-roberts","9":"tag-mr-welimuni-sunil","10":"tag-philip-gunawardena","11":"tag-ralph-peiris","12":"tag-t-w-roberts","13":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Philip Gunawardena interviewed by T.B. Subasinghe: first transcriptsLists of questions for interviews and background on personnel (2 folders)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Philip Gunawardena interviewed by T.B. Subasinghe: first transcriptsLists of questions for interviews and background on personnel (2 folders)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-25T06:34:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-25T08:15:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"160\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"184\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-25T06:34:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-25T08:15:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/\"},\"wordCount\":1052,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Mr Welimuni Sunil\",\"Philip Gunawardena\",\"Ralph Peiris\",\"T.W. Roberts\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Articles\",\"Michael Roberts\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/\",\"name\":\"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-25T06:34:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-25T08:15:37+00:00\",\"description\":\"Philip Gunawardena interviewed by T.B. Subasinghe: first transcriptsLists of questions for interviews and background on personnel (2 folders)\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\",\"width\":160,\"height\":184,\"caption\":\"Michael Roberts\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Articles\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/category\/articles\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/\",\"name\":\"eLanka\",\"description\":\"eLanka - Sri lanka events in Australia\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization\",\"name\":\"eLanka\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elanka-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elanka-logo.jpg\",\"width\":192,\"height\":82,\"caption\":\"eLanka\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elanka\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SriLankanDownUnder\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\",\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e0d346a7f97b80e861cdeafe7b7de523b59f5060666f1a5da8369457bf9b6c3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e0d346a7f97b80e861cdeafe7b7de523b59f5060666f1a5da8369457bf9b6c3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"eLanka admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/author\/elanka\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts","description":"Philip Gunawardena interviewed by T.B. Subasinghe: first transcriptsLists of questions for interviews and background on personnel (2 folders)","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts","og_description":"Philip Gunawardena interviewed by T.B. Subasinghe: first transcriptsLists of questions for interviews and background on personnel (2 folders)","og_url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/","og_site_name":"eLanka","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/","article_published_time":"2023-11-25T06:34:45+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-11-25T08:15:37+00:00","og_image":[{"width":160,"height":184,"url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"eLanka admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"eLanka admin","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/"},"author":{"name":"eLanka admin","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd"},"headline":"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts","datePublished":"2023-11-25T06:34:45+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-25T08:15:37+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/"},"wordCount":1052,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg","keywords":["Mr Welimuni Sunil","Philip Gunawardena","Ralph Peiris","T.W. Roberts"],"articleSection":["Articles","Michael Roberts"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/","name":"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg","datePublished":"2023-11-25T06:34:45+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-25T08:15:37+00:00","description":"Philip Gunawardena interviewed by T.B. Subasinghe: first transcriptsLists of questions for interviews and background on personnel (2 folders)","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg","width":160,"height":184,"caption":"Michael Roberts"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/michael-roberts-papers-at-adelaide-university-library-by-michael-roberts\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Articles","item":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/category\/articles\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Michael Roberts Papers at Adelaide University Library-by Michael Roberts"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/","name":"eLanka","description":"eLanka - Sri lanka events in Australia","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization","name":"eLanka","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elanka-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elanka-logo.jpg","width":192,"height":82,"caption":"eLanka"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elanka\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SriLankanDownUnder"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd","name":"eLanka admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e0d346a7f97b80e861cdeafe7b7de523b59f5060666f1a5da8369457bf9b6c3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e0d346a7f97b80e861cdeafe7b7de523b59f5060666f1a5da8369457bf9b6c3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"eLanka admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew"],"url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/author\/elanka\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125332,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125308\/revisions\/125332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}