Michael Roberts, Jay Roberts

Caste Conflict Elite Formation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Caste Conflict and Elite Formation is a study in the social history of Sri Lanka.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780521052856
• ISBN-10: 0521052858
• Artikelnr.: 23329148

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures, charts and maps; List of tables; Preface; Glossary; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Kar
va in the past; 3. Caste among the Sinhalese; 4. Economic opportunities and social relations, 1500s-1790s; 5. The British period: the economic advances of a Kar
va elite; 6. Social competition, caste conflict and manifestations of Kar
va power; 7. Casteism in South Asian politics during British times: emergent cultural typifications or elite fictions?; 8. Causal factors in the moulding of Kar
va entrepreneurship and the emergence of a Kar
va elite; 9. Concluding remarks; Tables; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.