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Casteless or Caste-Blind (English)

Dynamics of Concealed Caste Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Protest in Sri Lanka

Author : Silva,K.T., Sivapragasam, P.P.,and Thanges, P.

Publisher: Kumaran Book House

Place of Publish: India

Year: 2009

Page Numbers: 201

Acc. No: 16-S

Class No: 305.5

Category: Soft Documents

Subjects: Caste

Type of Resource: pdf

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-955-659-155-2

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In comparison to India, the caste system in Sri Lanka is considered to be mild. Three parallel and more or less independent caste systems prevail in Sri Lanka: Sinhala, Sri Lanka Tamil and Indian Tamil. Each caste system involves some forms of caste-based discrimination. The academic research on caste was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of these studies focused on functions of caste within a system of organic solidarity to the neglect of any consideration of caste discrimination and the plight of the bottom layers in the society.