Land, Labor, Capital and Sectional Interests in the National Politics of Sri Lanka
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- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Modern Asian Studies
- Vol. 15 (1) , 127-162
Abstract
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.Keywords
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