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Land, Labor, Capital and Sectional Interests in the National Politics of Sri Lanka*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Vijaya Samaraweera
Vijaya Samaraweera
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Western Carolina University
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The economy which evolved during the last phase of Sri Lanka's colonial rule under the British (1796–1948) has been the subject of increasing scholarly attention in the recent years. Much of the writing which has emerged is descriptive by nature; the concern has been to lay bare the manner in which the economy took its shape and not to provide an analytical framework to explain the developments of the colonial era. This is not to say that conceptualizing has been wholly absent. Indeed, one particular conceptual treatment of the economy of British Sri Lanka has produced an interpretation which has gained wide currency and it has now acquired considerable influence over the economic literature concerned with the country.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 127 - 162
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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