The adaptable peasant: Agrarian society in western Sri Lanka under Dutch rule, 1740-1800

Type Book
Title The adaptable peasant: Agrarian society in western Sri Lanka under Dutch rule, 1740-1800
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2007
Publisher Brill
URL https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr;=&id=pjqwCQAAQBAJ&
Abstract
This study analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism.

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