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THE STATE AND PEASANT POLITICS IN SRI LANKA

	The State And Peasant Politics In Sri Lanka by Moore
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Dr Moores enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lankas 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 Lankas 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. ISBN - 9780521056144

Pages : 344