Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c6.77

c6.77

∗ The Government, as such, is necessarily entirely secular in its relation to the people. † Exactly as in India. The situation is well described by E. B. Havell in the ‘Nineteenth Century’ for June, 1907. ‡ See ‘Suggestions for the Encouragement of the Indigenous Arts and Crafts of Ceylon,’ by the author, ‘Tropical Agriculturist,’ Colombo, 1906. § For an account of this see Appendix I.