| Caste Conflict Elite Formation Contributor(s): Roberts, Michael (Author), Roberts, Jay (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521052858 ISBN-13: 9780521052856 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $45.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 305.5 |
| Series: Cambridge South Asian Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.16 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |