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dc.contributor.advisorJones, C. L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHettiarachchy, Tilaken_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-18T16:51:49Z-
dc.date.available2014-06-18T16:51:49Z-
dc.date.created2011-07-26en_US
dc.date.issued1978-02en_US
dc.identifier.otheropendissertations/5586en_US
dc.identifier.other6608en_US
dc.identifier.other2117419en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/10546-
dc.description.abstract<p>An outline of the history of the Island from 1505 - the arrival of the Portuguese and the Dutch - their activities in the Maritime Provinces - effects they had on the political economy of the island establishment of the British power in Sri Lanka in 1796 - defining a peasant economy - organization of the factors of production - how the land was organized to obtain desired goods - how the labour was organized - the relations of productions - the role of mediators theoretical problems - why the production system changed under the British and not under other European powers - the relationship between the changes in the economy of the Imperial Metropolis and the changes in Sri Lanka - the importance of monopolies in merchant capitalist system - the change of merchant capitalism to industrial capitalism - consequent changes in the system of production in Sri Lanka.</p>en_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.titlePeasants In A Changing Economy Ecological Change Among the Sinhalese Peasants From 1796 A.D. TO 1909 A.D.en_US
dc.typethesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
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