The Adaptable Peasant
The Adaptable Peasant TAMO-9-dewasiri.indd i 22-10-2007 11:28:13 TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction Edited by Leonard Blussé and Cynthia Viallé VOLUME 9 TAMO-9-dewasiri.indd ii 22-10-2007 11:28:13 The Adaptable Peasant Agrarian Society in Western Sri Lanka under Dutch Rule, 1740-1800 By Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri LEIDEN • BOSTON 2008 TAMO-9-dewasiri.indd iii 22-10-2007 11:28:13 The TANAP programme is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). This book is printed on acid-free paper. A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISSN 1871-6938 ISBN 978 90 04 16508 3 Copyright 2008 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands TAMO-9-dewasiri.indd iv 22-10-2007 11:28:13 v Dedicated to my Mother and Father vi BLANCO vii SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD Probably nowhere in the world have such profound changes in historio- graphy been occurring as in the nation states of Monsoon Asia that gained independence after the conclusion of the Pacific War in 1945.
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