The Jesuits in Ceylon (In the XVI and XVII Centuries)/S.G. Perera. Reprint. New Delhi, AES, 2004, x, 171 p., $15. ISBN 81-206-1843-2.
Contents: Foreword. 1. Ceylon and St. Francis Xavier. 2. Father Manoel de Moraes and Brother Antonio Dyas. 3. The mission of Mannar. 4. Fathers Antonio Schipano and Manoel Veiga in Colombo. 5. The Jesuit Mission in Ceylon. 6. The college of Colombo. 7. Beginning of the mission. 8. The mission stations. 9. The destruction of the mission and the martyrdom of two missionaries. 10. Resumption of mission work. 11. Development of the mission. 12. Military chaplains. 13. The mission of Jaffna. 14. Trials of the Jaffna Mission. 15. The residences of Jaffna. 16. The destruction of the missions. 17. End of the mission of Colombo. 18. End of the mission of Mannar. 19. End of the mission of Jaffna. 20. Jesuit captives in Kandy. Appendix: the literary works of Jesuits in or about Ceylon. Index.
From the foreword: "The following is a short sketch of the old Jesuit Missions in Ceylon in the time of the Portuguese, written to commemorate the Fourth Centenary of the Establishment of the Society of Jesus. It is compiled mainly from manuscript sources, from original documents existing in the archives of the Society of Jesus and in the libraries of Rome, Lisbon and Colombo."