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ISBN | 9789553407023 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | 432p. |
Product Weight | 500 gms. |
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This book discusses the transformation of Ceylon’s economy and social structure under British rule in the nineteenth century. It focuses in particular on the waning of the old ruling class, changes to laws governing marriage and divorce, plunder of Buddhist temples, land-grabbing, alarm over epidemics, despoliation of wildlife, devastation caused by cattle disease, and felling of forests for timber and plantations.