Foreign Trade Relations in Sri Lanka in the Ancient Period: With Special Reference to the Period from 6th Century B.C to 16th Century A.D.
This article by J.M.Sudharmawathei has been published in Humanities and Social Science Review in 2017. The article is reproduced here because of the academic and historical significance of the proposition it highlights - that ancient Ceylon was not an isolated island depending upon agriculture as popularly known in history books,