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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-152). / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / xiv, 104 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Bibliography: leaves 336-365. / xx, 365 leaves : ill., maps ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geography, 1995

Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010. / Thesis Advisor(s): Borer, Douglas A. ; Second Reader: Chatterjee, Anshu. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 14, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: LTTE, Counter Insurgency, COIN, Sri Lanka, Tamil Eelam, Eelam War IV, SLAF, South Asia. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-56). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2009. / Typescript (photocopy). "August 2009." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 257-266). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Diss.--Fribourg. / Summary in German in pocket (xxi p.). Bibliography: p. [1]-[8] (last group).

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This study examines the impact of capital on the small peasant economy of Sri Lanka which has been dominated by paddy cultivation, the consequent processes of agrarian change in the peasant society and the impact of these changes on the lives of the peasantry. The persistence of peasant agriculture throughout the developing world has posed a challenge to classical theories of the development of capitalism in agriculture which considered peasant production or Simple Commodity Production as a transitional phenomenon doomed to disappear. Recent interpretations of theories on Simple Commodity Production however, argue that peasant forms of production can and likely will survive within capitalist social formations, and therefore the analysis of the dynamics of agrarian change has to focus on historically specific situations. Pursuing the latter view, this study identifies the role of the State, class structure, and the role of agro-ecological imperatives as key factors influencing agrarian change in Sri Lanka. While existing agrarian relations in the peasant sector have not become a barrier to the growth of productive forces in the peasant economy, this growth has not necessarily led to the disintegration of the peasantry, despite a certain amount of differentiation among them. While the dynamism manifested in the emergence of a small stratum of rich peasants and rural entrepreneurs may indicate the possibility of capitalist development in the peasant sector in some areas of the country, the overall situation within the peasant economy indicates the possibility of paddy agriculture reaching its advanced stages within the form of peasant production itself. In the event of such a possibility, it is the problem of underemployed labour in the peasant sector which will become the agrarian question of Sri Lanka. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate