Pul Eliya: A Village in Ceylon

by Edmund Leach

Book Overview

The North Central Province of Ceylon was the focus of a major civilisation which flourished between the third century BC and the twelfth century AD. The area is an arid plain where habitation is possible only with the help of an elaborate irrigation system; and the existing villages use the same irrigation works as the villages of antiquity. This 1961 book is a detailed analysis of how land was owned used and transmitted to later generations in one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521200210
• ISBN13: 9780521200219
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"