Sri Lankan Sociology in Global and Local Contexts
As is well known, many non-western societies came under western colonial domination starting in the early sixteenth century. Sri Lanka, previously known as Ceylon, a small island in the Indian Ocean, was under the domination of three successive colonial powers - namely the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British - from 1505 until its independence from the British in 1948. The country underwent a process of wide-ranging transformation...