caa a22 4500 386389799 CHVBK 20180307112110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0026749X00011458 doi S0026749X00011458 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0026749X00011458 Moore Mick Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex The Ideological History of the Sri Lankan ‘Peasantry' [Elektronische Daten] [Mick Moore] The Sri Lankan rural economy has long been categorized into a plantation sector producing tea, rubber and some coconuts for export, and a smallholder sector producing mainly food, especially rice, for domestic consumption. While incomplete, this dichotomy is still usable. One of the significant features of Sri Lankan rural history over the past half century has been a partial transfer of tea and rubber production from the plantation sector to the smallholder sector. In this and in related respects the traditional plantation-smallholder dichotomy has been weakening. Yet in another important respect there has been no convergence between the two sectors. The plantation sector has remained fully capitalist in the commonsense meaning of that term, while capitalist relations of production appear to have made few further inroads into the smallholder sector. True that a great deal of the labour used in smallholder production is hired. But that has long been the case. The evidence suggests that since World War Two the small family farm has at least held its own as the dominant form under which land is owned and managed. This has happened despite rapid population growth on a terrain already densely populated. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-02), 179-207 0026-749X 23:1<179 1989 23 ASS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00011458 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00011458 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Moore Mick Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-02), 179-207 0026-749X 23:1<179 1989 23 ASS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge