title: The Sinhalese Contribution to Estate Labour in Ceylon, 1881-1891
creator: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
subject: 950
subject: 950 General history of Asia Far East
description: It has become a firmly established belief among economic and labour historians that Sri Lanka’s plantation industry rested almost exclusively on imported Tamil labour during the 19th century. Although strong evidence countering this “dualistic” viewpoint has been produced since the late 1970s—especially by Éric Meyer—, the contribution of the local Sinhalese peasantry to estate wage labour remains underestimated or, indeed, largely ignored. This article strives to support Meyer’s point by bringing together old and new evidence illustrating the at times substantial Sinhalese participation in plantation wage labour.
date: 2007
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
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identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19681/1/Wenzlhuemer_The_Sinhalese_Contribution_to_Estate_Labour_2005.pdf
identifier: DOI:
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196817
identifier:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2007) The Sinhalese Contribution to Estate Labour in Ceylon, 1881-1891.  Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 48 (3).  pp. 442-458.      
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language: eng