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as photographer, and Mingo Wong, a
Chinese woman translator. The team studied 469 caves. Their two books based on their research focused on China's Buddhist heritage at a time when British imperialism and
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who actively campaigned for universal suffrage in Sri Lanka and succeeded in getting it in 1931 with the enactment of the
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in 1955, a book which incorporated illustrations of as many as 160 art works from various parts of Asia. In 1956 she presented a television programme on the
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After her marriage to Robert Nichol-Cadell, she resided in
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were prevalent in the country. De Silva's visit to China was facilitated at the intervention of her friend S.K.Panikkar, a historian from
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for a course in art history, the first Asian to do so. In Paris, studying the arts exhibited in the museums, particularly at the
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who became a politician, was
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Women & the Nation's
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journalist, political activist, author, art critic, and art historian. She worked for
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Erasure of the Euro-Asian: Recovering Early
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who was Ambassador of India in Paris and who was a friend of
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heritage. This later inspired her to write and publish
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was the well-known first woman architect of Sri Lanka.
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The Life of the Buddha Through Painting and Sculpture
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