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Politics of Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka: Third World Democracy. By Jupp James. Frank Cass: London, 1978. Pp. xxi, 423. £4.50. - Caste and Family in the Politics of the Sinhalese 1947–1976. By Jiggins Janice. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1979. Pp. xiii, 189. £9.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

M. P. Moore
M. P. Moore
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University of Sussex
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 163 - 169
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References

1 The other two are Kearney, R. N., Politics of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 1973);Google Scholar and Wilson, A. J., Politics in Sri Lanka, 1947–73 (Macmillan:London, 1974).Google Scholar

2 Jiggins, J., ‘Caste and Family in the Politics of the Sinhalese 1947–71’, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, 1973.Google Scholar

3 Ryan, B., Caste in Modern Ceylon (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1953).Google Scholar

4 See Leach, E. R., Pul Elya: A Village in Ceylon (Cambridge University Press, 1961);Google ScholarObeyesekere, G., Land Tenure in Village Ceylon (Cambridge University Press, 1967);Google ScholarStirrat, R. L., ‘Dravidian and Non-Dravidian Kinship Terminologies in Sri Lanka’, Contributions to Indian Sociology, New Series 11(2), 1977;Google ScholarTambiah, S. J., ‘Kinship Fact and Fiction in Relation to the Kandyan Sinhalese’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 95, 1965;Google Scholar and Yalman, N., Under the Bo Tree (University of California Press, 1967).Google Scholar