Some aspects of economic and social policy in Ceylon, 1840-1871
<p>One of the important themes of nineteenth century history as the impact of the industrialised Western nations on tropical colonial peoples. The detonations were more immediate in the economic and social fields where they were caused by the character of the colonial power, the particular pr...
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| description | <p>One of the important themes of nineteenth century history as the impact of the industrialised Western nations on tropical colonial peoples. The detonations were more immediate in the economic and social fields where they were caused by the character of the colonial power, the particular problems it faced and the policies it evolved in answer to them. In Ceylon, as elsewhere, the British faced broad problems of a choice between Western enterprise or indigenous enterprise, plantation culture or peasant culture, Western principles of economic freedom and laws of contract or tropical systems of compulsion and customary law, and between Western or indigenous forms of administration. Within the limits of the paths they chose, the principles of land policy were crucial in any agricultural country, both to Western and indigenous enterprise. In Ceylon it so happened that the question of waste lands presented a major problem. Their efforts to meet this problem through the waste lands legislation of 1840-41 and 1897 together with the spread of plantations in the Central Highlands are commonly said to have had disastrous effects on the Kandyan peasantry, leading to land shortage and landlessness. Some writers have gone so far as to attribute callous exploitative motives to the authors of this legislation. These views called for a re-examination, with particular attention to the implementation of policy at the grass roots and an attempt to assess the extent of land shortage and landlessness.</p>
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ec26aff7-bc63-4df3-8a7d-d46f1e8cfe452022-08-18T15:17:40ZSome aspects of economic and social policy in Ceylon, 1840-1871Thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:ec26aff7-bc63-4df3-8a7d-d46f1e8cfe45Sri Lanka -- Economic policySri Lanka -- History -- 1505-1948Sri Lanka -- Social policyEnglishHyrax Deposit1965Roberts, MW<p>One of the important themes of nineteenth century history as the impact of the industrialised Western nations on tropical colonial peoples. The detonations were more immediate in the economic and social fields where they were caused by the character of the colonial power, the particular problems it faced and the policies it evolved in answer to them. In Ceylon, as elsewhere, the British faced broad problems of a choice between Western enterprise or indigenous enterprise, plantation culture or peasant culture, Western principles of economic freedom and laws of contract or tropical systems of compulsion and customary law, and between Western or indigenous forms of administration. Within the limits of the paths they chose, the principles of land policy were crucial in any agricultural country, both to Western and indigenous enterprise. In Ceylon it so happened that the question of waste lands presented a major problem. Their efforts to meet this problem through the waste lands legislation of 1840-41 and 1897 together with the spread of plantations in the Central Highlands are commonly said to have had disastrous effects on the Kandyan peasantry, leading to land shortage and landlessness. Some writers have gone so far as to attribute callous exploitative motives to the authors of this legislation. These views called for a re-examination, with particular attention to the implementation of policy at the grass roots and an attempt to assess the extent of land shortage and landlessness.</p> <p>Continued in thesis ...</p> |
| spellingShingle | Sri Lanka -- Economic policy Sri Lanka -- History -- 1505-1948 Sri Lanka -- Social policy Roberts, MW Some aspects of economic and social policy in Ceylon, 1840-1871 |
| title | Some aspects of economic and social policy in Ceylon, 1840-1871 |
| title_full | Some aspects of economic and social policy in Ceylon, 1840-1871 |
| title_fullStr | Some aspects of economic and social policy in Ceylon, 1840-1871 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Some aspects of economic and social policy in Ceylon, 1840-1871 |
| title_short | Some aspects of economic and social policy in Ceylon, 1840-1871 |
| title_sort | some aspects of economic and social policy in ceylon 1840 1871 |
| topic | Sri Lanka -- Economic policy Sri Lanka -- History -- 1505-1948 Sri Lanka -- Social policy |
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