Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The Karava in the past; 3. Caste among the Sinhalese; 4. Economic opportunities and social relations, 1500s?1790s; 5. The British period: the economic advances of a Kardva elite; 6. Social competition, caste conflict and manifestations of Kardva power; 7. Casteism in South Asian politics during British times: emergent cultural typifications or elite fictions?; 8. Causal factors in the moulding of Kardva entrepreneurship and the emergence of a Karava elite; 9. Concluding remarks
