The Adaptable Peasant
Agrarian Society in Western Sri Lanka under Dutch Rule, 1740-1800
Biographical note
N. R. Dewasiri (1965), Ph.D. (2007) in History, Leiden University, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Colombo. His main interests are peasant history in pre-colonial and colonial Sri Lanka and ethnic ideologies in late and post-colonial Sri Lanka.
Readership
Those who are interested in the Western colonial intervention in Non-Western societies, in the social and economic history of South Asia and Sri Lanka.
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