I am one of the directors of Tambapanni Academic Publishers, an independent publisher of innovative non-fiction based in Colombo that specialises  in the humanities and social sciences, covering the complete publication spectrum from monographs to edited volumes. 

We publish original and pioneering works relevant to Sri Lanka and  South Asia, ranging from history to anthropology to architecture. Our  publications are for the global, regional and Sri Lankan reader and we  are committed to the highest editorial standards. While academic in  nature, many books on our list are also of interest to a general  readership.

Our commitment to the diffusion of ideas across  languages means we are supporting a niche program of translations of key  works into Sinhala, and in the future we plan to do this into Tamil as  well.

TAP has a dual mandate in keeping with its location in the  global South: it is deeply committed to answering the need of readers in  Sri Lanka for scholarly works of excellence at an affordable price, and  it is dedicated to hands-on working with talented new authors,  providing them with a gateway to global recognition.