عنوان

Caste conflict and elite formation :

(Number (ISBN

0521232104

(Number (ISBN

9780521232104

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b740880

Title Proper

Caste conflict and elite formation :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the rise of a Karāva elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Michael Roberts.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1982.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxviii, 382 pages :

Other Physical Details

maps ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

Cambridge South Asian studies ;

Volume Designation

24

Text of Note

Includes indexes.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-363).

Text of Note

Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The Karava 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 Kardva elite; 6. Social competition, caste conflict and manifestations of Kardva power; 7. Casteism in South Asian politics during British times: emergent cultural typifications or elite fictions?; 8. Causal factors in the moulding of Kardva entrepreneurship and the emergence of a Karava elite; 9. Concluding remarks.

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Text of Note

Caste conflict and elite formation is a study in the social history of Sri Lanka. However, it does not merely document the remarkable successes in business enterprise and in the acquisition of Western-educated professional skills which were achieved by families from the Karava caste during the last two centuries; their advances, and the social and political struggles which accompanied this process, are employed as a window through which a survey of social change in Sri Lanka during the last four hundred years is conducted. The interest of the book extends beyond the many fascinating social incidents, historical trends and channels of elite formation that are described within its pages to a series of controlled comparisons which reveal the factors responsible for the formation of the Karava elite. Thus the book extends the methodological frontiers of the social history of the region. It emphasizes the significance of the patterns of caste discrimination and caste interaction in Sri Lankan politics, and reveals how these patterns were central to the incentives and opportunities which powered the advances of the Karava families.

Elite (Social sciences)-- Sri Lanka-- History.

15.75 history of Asia.

Elite (Social sciences)

Kastenstelsel.

Sociale conflicten.

Karavas, History.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka.

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Book number

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Roberts, Michael,1938-

Date of Transaction

20201204015017.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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