In the 19th Century, the bourgeois Ceylonese class emerged. However, little information is known of the nouveau riche, let alone actual accounts of someone from that class. Who were these new elite? What were those first English-educated generations like?

In this intriguing coffee table book, Michael Roberts compiles letters by Jeronis Pieris, a member of this new social elite, that recount his life and times in Ceylon during the mid-19th century.

This hard cover volume contains geneology charts of the PIERIS and DE SOYSA families, showing their linkages. (Hannadige Pieris and Warusahannadige de Soysa families and their descendents).