eprintid: 19681
rev_number: 40
eprint_status: archive
userid: 6
dir: disk0/00/01/96/81
datestamp: 2015-10-21 13:58:17
lastmod: 2016-01-02 20:48:04
status_changed: 2015-10-21 13:58:17
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
title: The Sinhalese Contribution to Estate Labour in Ceylon, 1881-1891
subjects: 950
divisions: 72020
keywords: Sri Lanka, Labour History, Sinhalese Labour, Migrant Labour, Plantation Wage Labour
cterms_swd: Sri Lanka
cterms_swd: Arbeitsmigration
cterms_swd: Geschichte
abstract: 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
id_scheme: DOI
ppn_swb: 1658772407
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196817
language: eng
bibsort: WENZLHUEMETHESINHALE2007
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 
volume: 48
number: 3
pagerange: 442-458
citation:   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.      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19681/1/Wenzlhuemer_The_Sinhalese_Contribution_to_Estate_Labour_2005.pdf