This book is a combined revised reprint of two books by the late Sanmugam Arumugam. The two books are Ancient Hindu Temples of Sri Lanka; Second Edition 1982; and More Hindu Temples of Sri Lanka; 1991. These two books have long been out of print. Ancient Hindu Temples describes 52 Temples; including the oldest Hindu Temple still existing in Sri Lanka which is Siva Devale No. 2 in Polonnaruva. More Hindu Temples goes on to describe 54 additional temples; some ancient and some relatively recent. Many of the temples are illustrated by photographs. The contents of both of the above books have been merged in this single Volume. Sanmugam Arumugam was a Chartered Civil Engineer and a graduate of Kings College; London. He worked in the Irrigation Department in Sri Lanka for 32 years; retiring as a Deputy Director in 1965. He then worked as a Director of the Water Resources Board for six years. He was President of the Institution of Engineers; Sri Lanka in 1966-67. He was the author of several technical papers and books including the monumental 461 page book; Water Resources of Ceylon 1969; which remains a standard reference resource on the subject to this day. After his retirement he turned his attention to writing about Hindu Temples. Apart from the two books reprinted in this volume; his published works include The Lord of Thiruketheeswaram; 1980; Koneswaram 1986; Lombok and its Temples 1990; and Stone Sculptures in Colombo Hindu Temple 1990. His final work was Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon 1997; which includes the profiles of over 775 Ceylon Tamils. He passed away in the year 2000; at the age of 94 years; working on his word processor right up to the very end.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. If You Can't Attend the Exhibit in GreenwichBy John MatlockNelson and Napoleon were the titans of their day -- with Wellington coming along just a bit later. The differences were; of course; land and water. Napoleon had few rivals on land. But he came up against Nelson and the Royal Navy. He went no further in that direction.This book is put out by the British National Maritime Museum which has an emense collection of artifacts from that time period. Most of the book is more or less a catalog of a special exhibit put together at the Museum commemorating the 200th anniversary of Nelson's victory and death at the Battle of Trafalgar.The pictures in the book are the closest that most of us will ever get to the exhibit; but the photography and printing is of such a quality that you feel like you came close to seeing the exhibit. Further; the commentary in the book is probably more extensive than what you normally see at an exhibit. Each chapter in the book has a few pages of explanation of what the overall chapter was trying to cover.It's a beautiful book.
