Colonization and Ethnic Conflict in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka

Patrick Peebles · Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 49 No. 1 (1990)

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Foundational peer-reviewed academic source documenting how Ceylonese irrigation-colonisation schemes from the 1930s onward — Gal Oya, Padaviya, System B/C/L of Mahaweli, Weli Oya/Manal Aru — re-engineered the demographic composition of Tamil and Muslim majority districts in the Eastern Province and Vanni. Peebles establishes that both major Sinhalese parties (UNP and SLFP) instrumentalised these schemes for electoral advantage.

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