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“The Kandy Man’’-REVIEW BY TISSA DEVENDRA Source:Sunday Observer It took me some time to appreciate Sarath Amunuama’s title of his autobiography. I had never realized how deep rooted was the identification of Kandyan Sinhalese with the kingdom they lost in 1815. This was manifest at the triumph expressed by Sarath’s father at his son’s appointment as the first born and bred Kandyan Government Agent of a Kandyan District I am also certain that Sarath was fully aware that his career proved the truth of Robert Knox’s apocryphal farmer who was fit to be king once his mud was washed off. ...