Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources. Sri Lanka has more than fifty years' history of pluralist democracy and such issues directly affect the interests of the smallholder population. Yet successive Sri Lankan governments have pursued economic policies favouring food consumers and the state itself at the expense of agricultural producers. In exploring the features of Sri Lanka's history, geography, politics and economy which explain this paradox, the author looks in detail at some of the dominant features of contemporary Sri Lanka: the political consequences of the plantation experience; the persistence of elite political leadership; and the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict.
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Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources.
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food commissioner, vel vidanes, lake house, paddy fertiliser, paddy bias, alienation procedures, smallholding population, paddy producers, smallholder interest, smallholder demands, minor food crops, smallholder population, subsidiary food crops, peasant political action, export crop producers, plantation impact, minor export crops, paddy production, paddy cultivators, smallholder sector, farm output prices, paddy farmers, smallholder economy, paddy holdings, smallholder producers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sri Lanka, Dry Zone, Low Country, Indian Tamil, Paddy Lands Act, Census of Agriculture, Cultivation Committees, United Front, Census of Population, State Council, Sinhalese Buddhist, Central Bank of Ceylon, Land Development Ordinance, Prime Minister, Land Commission, World War Two, Review of the Economy, Philip Gunawardena, Village Expansion Schemes, Nuwara Eliya, Communist Party, North Central Province, Paddy Lands Bill, Waste Lands Ordinance, Appendix Two Browse Sample Pages:
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food commissioner, vel vidanes, lake house, paddy fertiliser, paddy bias, alienation procedures, smallholding population, paddy producers, smallholder interest, smallholder demands, minor food crops, smallholder population, subsidiary food crops, peasant political action, export crop producers, plantation impact, minor export crops, paddy production, paddy cultivators, smallholder sector, farm output prices, paddy farmers, smallholder economy, paddy holdings, smallholder producers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sri Lanka, Dry Zone, Low Country, Indian Tamil, Paddy Lands Act, Census of Agriculture, Cultivation Committees, United Front, Census of Population, State Council, Sinhalese Buddhist, Central Bank of Ceylon, Land Development Ordinance, Prime Minister, Land Commission, World War Two, Review of the Economy, Philip Gunawardena, Village Expansion Schemes, Nuwara Eliya, Communist Party, North Central Province, Paddy Lands Bill, Waste Lands Ordinance, Appendix Two Browse Sample Pages:
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