Social change and class relations in rural Sri Lanka

ThesisThesis, 1981Thesis, University of Sussex, 1981Focuses on the changing patterns of social stratification in Sri Lankan village communities in the last half century. Attempts to demonstrate that control over rural organisations and political links is gaining importance over occupation and membership in primordial groups. Demonstrates how this control has become an independent source of power and authority, thus providing a new basis for social stratification