This is the first detailed comparative analysis of electorates in Sri Lanka since 1947. Dilesh Jayanntha examines electoral allegiance in three contrasting constituencies--Sandville, Mirville and Jung Town--and demonstrates how patronage networks based initially on wealth and later on access to and control of state institutions determined electoral allegiance. Often the patronage network was congruent with caste. But, as Jayanntha shows, where the patron-client tie cut across the caste tie it was the former which proved decisive in deciding electoral allegiance.
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A detailed comparative analysis of electorates in Sri Lanka. It addresses issues that are relevant not only to South Asia but to the developing world in general and will therefore be of interest to specialists and students of South Asia, comparative politics, sociology and anthropology.
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It is tempting to study caste, patronage and politics in Sri Lanka in a Pan-Indian context. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lesser headmen, neighbouring electorate, patronage disbursed, bus magnates, patronage disbursement, patronizing families, native headman, depressed castes, electoral allegiance, caste tie, polling agents, nylon gill nets, two electorates, village elites, opportunistic groups, national swing, total valid vote, whole blocs, local influentials, double voting, urban patrons, traditional intermediaries, patronage networks, village headmen, political goodwill Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Town, Don Dip, Sri Lanka, Groville Korale, Yap Korale, Mudaliyar Coo, Vidane Arachchi, Purville Korale, Mudaliyar Foo, Tiger Land, General Election, Dinosaur Brand, Kit Foo, Prime Minister, Augusta College, Low Country, Teri Voo, Dee Foo, Korale Mudaliyar, Beach Way, Doctor Ay, Marti Mou, Nerti Nou, Communist Party, Green Acre New!
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It is tempting to study caste, patronage and politics in Sri Lanka in a Pan-Indian context. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lesser headmen, neighbouring electorate, patronage disbursed, bus magnates, patronage disbursement, patronizing families, native headman, depressed castes, electoral allegiance, caste tie, polling agents, nylon gill nets, two electorates, village elites, opportunistic groups, national swing, total valid vote, whole blocs, local influentials, double voting, urban patrons, traditional intermediaries, patronage networks, village headmen, political goodwill Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Town, Don Dip, Sri Lanka, Groville Korale, Yap Korale, Mudaliyar Coo, Vidane Arachchi, Purville Korale, Mudaliyar Foo, Tiger Land, General Election, Dinosaur Brand, Kit Foo, Prime Minister, Augusta College, Low Country, Teri Voo, Dee Foo, Korale Mudaliyar, Beach Way, Doctor Ay, Marti Mou, Nerti Nou, Communist Party, Green Acre New!
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- Political Structure in a Changing Sinhalese Village (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Marguerite S. Robinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Caste Ideology and Interaction (Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology) by Dennis B. McGilvray in Back Matter
- Colonial India by Rosalind O'Hanlon in Back Matter
- Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Gyan Prakash in Back Matter
- The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom by Nicholas B. Dirks in Back Matter
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- Political Science, Fourth Edition (Comparative Government and Politics) by Rod Hague in Back Matter
- Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by John R. McLane in Back Matter
- Sufi Saints and State Power: The Pirs of Sind, 1843-1947 (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Sarah F. D. Ansari in Back Matter
- A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Bina Agarwal in Back Matter
- Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India 1639-1739 (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Stephen P. Blake in Back Matter
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