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Elegant coffee table book tells the story of 75 year old Peradeniya University

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Colombo, November 22 (newsin.asia): To mark the 75 th. Anniversary of the degree-awarding university system in Sri Lanka this year,  a group of old students of Peradeniya University got together to produce a coffee table book on their alma mater.

The well-illustrated volume, with each picture carrying crisply written notes, was released last Sunday by the Minister of Higher Education, Lakshman Kiriella.

The title of the volume “Garden University of Peradeniya” is apt given the fact that  the Peradeniya University campus is rated as the 10 th most beautiful campus in the world.

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Set amidst sylvan surroundings and manicured gardens, the sprawling campus stands out also because it is uniquely Sri Lankan in its architecture.

The offices, teaching blocks and the “Halls” blend neatly with the traditional local Kandyan architecture. The architecture also has elements from the Anuradhapura and Polannaruwa periods in Sri Lankan history.

As co-author S.A.C.Mohamed Zuhyle put it, this is surprising given the fact that the moving spirit and executor of the university building project was a Britisher, Sir Ivor Jennings.

“Sir Ivor was a European, a White and a gentleman of the colonial era. One would  expect him to favor the classical Greek or Roman styles. But he was of a different mold,” Zuhyle said.

A constitutional lawyer, who was to help D.S.Senanayake draft a constitution for the Dominion of Ceylon, Sir Ivor was dedicated to the indigenization of British-inspired institutions in Sri Lanka. He was the father of the university system in Sri Lanka having been the Principal of the University College of Ceylon, a non-degree awarding university institution in Colombo, and the founder- Vice Chancellor of the University of Ceylon which came into being 75 years ago in 1942.

Sir Ivor was so passionate about the new university project that he would keep track of it and supervise it closely. Although Sir Patrick Abercrombie and resident architect Shirley D’Alwis, a Sri Lankan, were the architects, it was Sir Ivor’s concept which was translated into brick and mortar.

“He even chose the plants and trees to be planted in the campus,” Zuhyle said.

Interested in social uplift (having himself studied in Grammar Schools, where the less well to do British went), Sir Ivor wanted to establish an endowment in his name to help indigent but promising students of Sri Lanka.

Sir Ivor’s yearning was at the back of the minds of the authors of the coffee table book, Zuhyle and Dr.R.M.K.Ratnayake. They decided that the earnings from the sale of the book (priced at LKR 3,000) should go into a “Sir Ivor Jennings Endowment Fund” which in turn will fund student development projects in Peradeniya University.

Sir Ivor Jennings

“ We will concentrate on the development of soft skills, which are of utmost importance these days. Students coming out of universities may have academic achievements or technical expertise, but they lack soft skills which are necessary to secure employment in the modern economy,” Zuhyle said, explaining the need for student development projects in Sri Lanka.

“Garden University of Peradeniya” tells the story of the campus from the germination of the idea of having a university in the island way back in the 1920s to its inauguration in 1942. The story is told through vignettes about the key personalities who shaped the university and bits of information on the various institutions in the campus.

“There are a number of  books on the university, including one by Ivor Jennings himself, but we felt there is a need to have a less turgid and easy to read book on a campus which has much to be proud of,”  Zuhyle said.

The slim volume could be used to promote tourism, he added.

The university campus could well be included in tourists’ itinerary along with the Botanical Gardens and the Temple of the Golden Tooth in Kandy. The government could buy copies for display in the country’s embassies overseas.

The book also narrates in a readable form, the intense debate over the choice of a site for the university. In the “Battle of Sites”, the warring parties were drawn from the who’s who of the indigenous elite of colonial Ceylon. Among them were Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan and Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam; Sir James Peiris;  Sir Marcus Fernando; Sir D.B.Jayatilake; and D.R.Wijewardene.

While some wanted the campus to be located in Colombo, given its facilities, centrality and connectivity, others wanted it to be  located at away from the hustle and bustle of the city to give scope for untrammeled contemplation, which is needed for the development and nurturing of new thoughts and ideas expected of universities.

Given the intensity of the differences between the two schools of thought, the government appointed a committee under Justice M.T.Akbar which chose Peradeniya near Kandy.

“But once Akbar let the preference be known, ranks were closed and every one cooperated to make the university a reality. The elite also contributed funds. And Sir Ivor went about his task of raising the campus on an abandoned tea estate and the surrounding woods with single minded devotion,”  Zuhyle said.

Zuhyle and Ratnayake, however, did not have an easy time writing the book.

“ Getting hold of people who could throw  fresh light on the past was difficult.  Collection of photographs was a harder task. We needed print quality pictures which were a rarity. Finally, I, who had no background of photography, took many of the pictures and discovered that I wasn’t a bad photographer!” Zuhyle said.

(The featured image at the top is that of the Peradeniya University Campus)  

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