TY  - JOUR
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  -  Labour History
KW  -  Sinhalese Labour
KW  -  Migrant Labour
KW  -  Plantation Wage Labour
ID  - heidok19681
N2  - 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.
JF  - Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 
Y1  - 2007///
TI  - The Sinhalese Contribution to Estate Labour in Ceylon, 1881-1891
SP  - 442
EP  - 458
IS  - 3
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19681/
AV  - public
A1  - Wenzlhuemer, Roland
VL  - 48
ER  -