Agrarian change in Sri Lanka

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Recent transformations in Sri Lanka′s agrarian structures have been complex. While the overall direction of change has been towards more capitalist forms of organization, the process of transformation itself has varied from region to region. Bringing together a set of ethnographic studies conducted in six of Sri Lanka′s provinces, this volume explores both the range and the complexity of these processes.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part 1 Introductory Essays
• Sri Lanka
• A Special Case of Development?
• Themes in Agrarian Change
• Part 2 Structural Change Of Agrarian Systems
• Capitalist Development, Rural Politics and Peasant Agriculture in Highland Sri Lanka
• Structural Change in a Low Caste Village
• Trends in Agrarian Change
• Past and Present in Wewegama, a Village in the Mahaweli Development Project Area, Anuradhapura District
• Transformation and Trajectories of Agrarian Systems in Jaffna and Nuwara Eliya Districts
• Shifting Cultivation Comes to Rest
• Changing Values of Land and the Person in an Area of Monaragala District
• Part 3 Aspects And Implications Of Agrarian Change
• Landholding and Service in a Temple Village in the Kandyan Highlands
• Democracy, Party Competition and Leadership
• The Changing Power Structure in a Sinhalese Community
• Agrarian Change and the Struggle for Community in Kukulewa, Anuradhapura District
• Agrarian Relations and the Seasonal Influx of Agricultural Labor in a Sinhalese Village in the Northcentral Province
• Part 4 Perceptions And Representations Of Agrarian Change
• The Ideological History of the Sri Lankan 'Peasantry'
• Representations of the Rural
• A View from Sabaragamuva
• Perceiving Agrarian Change
• Past and Present in Ratmale, a Sinhalese Potter Village