Machine derived contents note: 1. Puzzles and agendas; 2. Methods, scope and elaborations; 3. Crown lands; 4. Land reform; 5. Pricing and agricultural services; 6. Categorising space: urban-rural and core-periphery; 7. A smallholder interest or smallholder interests? 8. Rural consciousness; 9. Ethnic conflict and the politics of the periphery; 10. The Sri Lankan polity; 11. Concluding remarks