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The Roberts Oral History Project, 1964-1969: Its Conception, Inception & Outcomes-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In re-establishing communication with two old Mertonians of the early 1960s generation at my College in Oxford, viz, Tony Roberton and Keith Shuttleworth,\u00a0I have been induced to reflect upon my unusual circumstances as a postgraduate at Merton and Oxford<\/strong>.\u00a0Apart from being one of the few Sri Lankans in that University,[i]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0I happened to be (A) engaged in postgraduate work which demanded research at the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane in London, and (B) a colonial visitor with the asset of two sisters domiciled in London.[ii]<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tony is kneeling on the left upfront; while Keith is on my rght\u2013 Merton rugger team c. 1964\/65<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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My father TW Roberts was also in London \u2013 aged in his eighties and staying with his favourite daughter Pamela after the changing political circumstances and the abandonment of horse racing under Mrs Bandaranaike\u2019s regime had induced him to leave Ceylon in 1961.[iii]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0As it happened, TW was also an Oxonian, having earned his Classics Degree at Hertford College in the late 1890s before sitting for the Colonial Civil Service examinations and securing a posting to the colony of Ceylon in 1901.[iv]<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Alas, it is my regret that I never made any inquiries from my father about his life in Barbados and thereafter in Oxford. I therefore failed to acquire any data on his cricketing history for Hertford College and the Authentics.[v]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Looking back,\u00a0the crucial issue I failed to address was this<\/strong>:\u00a0how is it that a young man who played for Harrison College in Barbados[vi]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and even represented Barbados in a match vs a visiting English team[vii]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0could not secure a spot in the Oxford University cricket team? The implicit issues attached to this question are: did racism bar his progress to the cricketing heights at Oxford? Or was he otherwise occupied and unable to press forward into the squad for the prestigious Varsity match? I have no material with which to address these two questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

TWR\u2019s subsequent exploits during the limited opportunities he received in British Ceylon demonstrate his belligerent batting skills. These have been revealed by SP Foenander in his invaluable book\u00a0Sixty Years of Ceylon Cricket<\/em>\u00a0(Colombo, Ceylon Advertising General Publicity Co, 1924). One example should suffice: on\u00a026th<\/sup>\u00a0March<\/strong>\u00a01908<\/strong>\u00a0TW scored an aggressive 70 runs for Ceylon<\/strong>\u00a0against an MCC team lead by AO Jones\u2019 visiting MCC team on its way to Australia \u2013\u00a0making up almost half his team\u2019s total of 157 runs<\/strong>\u00a0(see page<\/span><\/p>\n

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He is pictured here after he scored a record 247 runs for the Kalutara Bar vs the Galle Bar in ??<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I did not fail on another front. I was, then in the 1960s, a young historian in the empiricist mould and had an intense interest in Ceylon\u2019s history \u2013 my topic for the doctoral dissertation being Britain\u2019s agrarian policies in the mid-nineteenth century.[ix]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Thus motivated, at one point I had the good sense to request my pater to write down his memoirs on his administrative experiences in the island. This was around 1963 or 1964.**<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

However, in a momentous step I went further.\u00a0I considered it fruitful to gather information from retired British public servants who had seen service in Ceylon either in the CCS or in specialist departments.<\/strong>\u00a0An official government department in UK provided a list of these men and there was no problem in securing their addresses.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, there developed\u00a0the Roberts Oral History Project<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 or ROHP in brief \u2014 an innovative idea for its time[x]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and one that I am, now, quite proud of. Its fruition, however, is due to two individuals and I cannot lay adequate praise here for their support. These two are\u00a0Professor Karl Goonewardena<\/strong>\u00a0who was head of the Department of History at Peradeniya University in the 1960s, and\u00a0the head of the Asia Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0in Colombo.[xi]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0I sought money and equipment from the latter and an endorsement of my idea from Professor Karl. I believe that Professor Goonewardena supported the project unreservedly. The Asia Foundation responded favourably.<\/span><\/p>\n

These proceedings would have been in early 1965 when I was in the process of finalizing my dissertation while living in a cottage in Bath Place belonging to Merton College with my supportive Scottish wife Shona.[xii]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0The details have been erased from my memory, but in the English summer of 1965 (while indulging in an Authentics cricket tour of Scotland), I knew that the project was a goer. I then took time off to extend our financial resources via employment as a bus conductor in the Isle of Wight over the summer break (with Shona and baby Kim in tow); and then returned to\u00a0Oxford\u00a0which served as the base during the last quarter of 1965 and the first two months of 1966 from where I ventured to many parts of England to interview the retired British public servants and tap into their experiences in the colony of Ceylon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Virtually all the British public servants were happy to provide taped interviews and some even had me as overnight guests<\/strong>.\u00a0As far as I recall. only Sir Peter Alexander Clutterbuck rejected the use of a recorder though he was ready to chat freely.[xiii]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Unlike the retired Sri Lankan public servants whom I was to interview in the late 1960s,[xiv]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0most of these retirees were in semi-rural locations on the edge of towns in different parts of UK. This meant travel far and wide in England. My records reveal that\u00a0these interviews were mostly undertaken between late November 1965 and January 1966.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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With Baby Kim in Bath Place, Oxford where we resided a Merton College cottage in 1965\/66 and where Shona saw to all the typing requirements<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

These expenses and the extension of my sojourn in UK were financed by my savings and the grant provided by the\u00a0Asia Foundation in Ceylon.<\/strong>\u00a0By far the most vital part of this grant was that used to purchase\u00a0a tape recorder<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a large \u2018instrument\u2019 packed within a solid leather case.\u00a0<\/strong>That leather case is etched deeply in my memory because it also lay between my legs when I scootered down to Colombo in the years 1967 to 1970 to conduct my oral history interviews.<\/span><\/p>\n

The details arising from the continuation of my oral history work in Ceylon-becoming-Sri Lanka demand a separate essay because of their many ramifications: among these being (A) the chance donations of valuable manuscripts and the discovery of documents pertaining to the Ceylon National Congress in the years 1930-51 in the hands of JR Jayewardene (then Minister of State);[xv]\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and (B) work on Kar\u0101va families on the path of socio-economic advancement which also involved oral history methodology. These lines of documentary accession and expansion were also encouraged and intertwined with the lively academic seminars promoted at Peradeniya University in the precincts of the Department of Sociology \u2013 referring here to the activities of the\u00a0Ceylon Studies Seminar<\/strong>\u00a0promoted by Gananath Obeyeskere, CR de Silva, Tissa Fernando, Gerald Peiris, Kithsiri Malalgoda, AJ Wilson, myself and other academics and serviced by Mrs Hettiaratchi and My Kumaraswamyas typists and Sathiah as essential producer of the cyclostyled seminar papers prior to each session.<\/span><\/p>\n

BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/span><\/h3>\n

Foenander, S. P.\u00a0<\/strong>1924\u00a0Sixty Years of Ceylon Cricket<\/em>, Colombo: eylon advertising & General Publicity Co.<\/span><\/p>\n

McCarthy, Dudley\u00a0<\/strong>1983\u00a0From Gallipoli to the Somme. The Story of CEW Bean,<\/em>\u00a0Sydney: John Ferguson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nicholls, Kitty<\/strong>\u00a01997 Memorandum on Thomas Clarke and Isabelle Roberts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perera, S. S.\u00a0<\/strong>1999\u00a0The Janashakthi Book of Sri Lanka Cricket<\/em>, Colombo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roberts, T. W.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a01963 A Memoir, typescript [written at the behest of his son Michael] \u2026 available in Barr Smith Library Special Collections, University of Adelaide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael<\/strong>\u00a02003 \u201cThe Bajan Connection in Sri Lanka,\u201d in\u00a0BCCSL Cricket Souvenir for West Indies Tour<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n


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