{"product_id":"caste-conflict-elite-formation-paperback-9780521052856","title":"Caste Conflict Elite Formation (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521052856","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCaste Conflict Elite Formation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaste Conflict and Elite Formation is a study in the social history of Sri Lanka.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Roberts (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521052856, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 December 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.7 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.545 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCaste 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 social change in Sri Lanka during the last four hundred years is conducted. The interest of the book extends beyond the many fascinating social incidents, historical trends and channels of elite formation that are described within its pages to a series of controlled comparisons which reveal the factors responsible for the formation of the Karava elite. Thus the book extends the methodological frontiers of the social history of the region. It emphasizes the significance of the patterns of caste discrimination and caste interaction in Sri Lankan politics, and reveals how these patterns were central to the incentives and opportunities which powered the advances of the Karava families.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures, charts and maps\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Kar?va in the past\u003cbr\u003e 3. Caste among the Sinhalese\u003cbr\u003e 4. Economic opportunities and social relations, 1500s–1790s\u003cbr\u003e 5. The British period: the economic advances of a Kar?va elite\u003cbr\u003e 6. Social competition, caste conflict and manifestations of Kar?va power\u003cbr\u003e 7. Casteism in South Asian politics during British times: emergent cultural typifications or elite fictions?\u003cbr\u003e 8. Causal factors in the moulding of Kar?va entrepreneurship and the emergence of a Kar?va elite\u003cbr\u003e 9. Concluding remarks\u003cbr\u003e Tables\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006283305240,"sku":"9780521052856","price":37.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521052856i_2bc211d1-afa4-47f8-9ed4-772511e5b128.jpg?v=1694968766","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/caste-conflict-elite-formation-paperback-9780521052856","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}