A Hand Book to the Jaffna Peninsula and a Souvenir of the Opening of the Railway to the North/S. Katiresu. Reprint. New Delhi, AES, 2004, xii, 111 p., $11. ISBN 81-206-1872-6.
Contents: 1. Geography: general, divisions, roads, climate, monsoons, soil. 2. Early history: origin of Jaffna, Tamil Kings, Portuguese days, Dutch rule, British regime. 3. Races and creeds: Tamils, Naddukoddai Chetties, Moors, other races, religions. 4. Tamil language and literature: general, Jaffna poets, prose writers. 5. Education: colleges, boarding schools for girls, convents, industrial schools. 6. Journalism: newspapers, magazines. 7. Agriculture: wells, rice, dry grains, vegetables, breadfruit, jak fruit, grape vine, ground-nut, pine apple, pomegranates, mangoes, tobacco, cocoanut, Palmyrah, tamarind, Margosa, Suria, Iluppai. 8. Industries and occupations: machinery, dyeing, oil mills, weaving, cigar-making, basket and mat making, goldsmith occupations. 9. Things of interest: ruins, curiosities, buildings etc. of interest. 10. Principal roads with their distances, noting places of interest: Jaffna to (1) Elephant Pass, (2) Point Pedro, (3) Kangasenturai, (4) Kaits, (5) Punnalai via Manipay, (6) Kodigamam to Point Pedro, (7) Point Pedro to Punnalai. 11. Towns and villages. 12. Public institutions and offices: post and telegraph offices, hospitals, out-door dispensaries, rest houses, libraries and reading rooms, civil service, justices of the peace, Maniagars. 13. Fauna of Jaffna. 14. Caste. 15. Local customs and games: marriage, funerals, general, Thesavalamai, measurement of space, dry measure, measurement of time, games."