Caste Conflict Elite Formation

by Michael Roberts

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521052858
• ISBN13: 9780521052856
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"