Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Sri Lankan terms
- Maps
- 1 Puzzles and agendas
- 2 Methods, scope and elaborations
- 3 Crown lands
- 4 Land reform
- 5 Pricing and agricultural services
- 6 Categorising space: urban–rural and core–periphery
- 7 A smallholder interest or smallholder interests?
- 8 Rural consciousness
- 9 Ethnic conflict and the politics of the periphery
- 10 The Sri Lankan polity
- 11 Concluding remarks
- Appendix 1 Results of general elections, 1947–77: percentage of parliamentary seats won
- Appendix 2 The myth of the plantation impact on the Sinhalese village: two accounts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Sri Lankan terms
- Maps
- 1 Puzzles and agendas
- 2 Methods, scope and elaborations
- 3 Crown lands
- 4 Land reform
- 5 Pricing and agricultural services
- 6 Categorising space: urban–rural and core–periphery
- 7 A smallholder interest or smallholder interests?
- 8 Rural consciousness
- 9 Ethnic conflict and the politics of the periphery
- 10 The Sri Lankan polity
- 11 Concluding remarks
- Appendix 1 Results of general elections, 1947–77: percentage of parliamentary seats won
- Appendix 2 The myth of the plantation impact on the Sinhalese village: two accounts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
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- The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka , pp. viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985