Newton Gunasinghe, Selected Essays

acres agrarian agrarian bloc agriculture alliance archaic areas attempt base basically become capital capitalist caste changes colonial coming consisting context continued contradictions created crops cultivation decline dependent direct dominance economic elements emergence employment essay established ethnic existence fertility forces growth Gunasinghe ideological important increased industrial instance interests introduction Italy Jaffna Kandyan labour land land reform landlords leading major marriage Marxism masses ment observes occurred open economic policy organisation origin paddy parties peasant peasantry period plantations plots political poor position possible present production question regime region relations rent result ruling rural rural petty bourgeoisie sector Sinhala Sinhalese social social formation society South Sri Lanka stratum structure surplus Tamil temple tenants theoretical tion trade traditional units urban village wage workers