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Sri Lanka
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| Karunasena Dias PARANAVITANA |
Karunasena Dias Paranavitana graduated from the University of Ceylon in 1968 and joined the National Archives in 1970. In 1979 he studied Archive Administration at the General State Archives in The Netherlands where he specialised in 17th and 18th century Dutch language. In 1994 he obtained Ph.D. at the University of New South Wales, Australia, his thesis being The Archives of the Dutch East India Company Administration in Ceylon 1640-1796.
in 1996, he retired as Deputy Director, National Archives, taking up an University career at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.
He is a Member of the Royal Netherlands Association of Archivists, the Australian Society of Archivists and the incumbent Vice President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka.
The translator of the Travel Journal of Joris van Spilbergen, the first Dutch Envoy to Ceylon (1997) and the author of Land for Money - Dutch Land Registrar in Sri Lanka (2001). He has published several books in Sinhala and contributed widely to scholarly journals.
In 2002, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, honoured him as a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. |
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