Kumari Jayawardena is the author of The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon; Ethnic and Class Conflict in Sri Lanka; Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World; The White Woman’s Other Burden; and Nobodies to Somebodies—the Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka. She is a former Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colombo, where she now teaches in the post-graduate Women's Studies Programme.
Very little is known about the two secretaries of the embassy sent by Tipu Sultan to Constantinople, Khwaja Abdul Qadir, who wrote the Waqai-i Manazil-i Rum, and Sayyid Jafar.
Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian novelist who lives in West Hobart, Tasmania. He is the author of The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish and The Narrow Road to the
Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) was an Italian economist and sociologist. Some of his seminal works include The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (1994), Chaos and
