![]() ![]() He was on horseback in a rural area when it happened. ![]() A European landowner was ambushed, shot and killed on his way back from a bank. The book is structured around a trial loosely based on a real incident. ![]() There’s a funny line when the main character returns from Oxford and his mother, disappointed with his choice of degree, says to him “All that money squandered on you at Oxford. Sometimes he is aware, as when he states that at Oxford “I knew very well that in order to be their equal I should have to prove myself their superior.” Of course, the Sinhalese themselves screwed the lower-class Tamils even more so after independence. Most of the time he seems oblivious to his skin color and native status despite many warning signs, such as a European piano teacher who catches him handling one of her knickknacks and screams at him about his 'black hands' touching her property. He is so sold on the ideals and benefits of British colonialism that all his life he uses the phrase “We Edwardians.” He is a young Black man, a native Sinhalese, who goes to Oxford to become a lawyer. The main character is Sam (after his initials). ![]() The Hamilton Case is set in Sri Lanka (then the British colony of Ceylon) around the early 1900s. ![]()
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