...A. Das Gupta Merchants, Companies, and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650–1740 . By Sinnappah Arasaratnam . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1986 . 407 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 415 The book catalogs...

...Arnold L. Green Ceylon . By S. Arasaratnam . Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1964 . vi, 182 . Suggested Readings; Index $4.95. (paper, $1.95). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 552 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES when, in fact, difficulties arise...

...Gananath Obeyesekere Abstract Many scholarly articles and some of a polemical nature have been written on the 1971 insurgency in Sri Lanka. Recent studies of this movement (Fernando 1972, Egan 1972, Kearney 1973, Arasaratnam 1972, Warnapala 1972) have helped us to understand some of the underlying...

... This book is an advance on Moreland and Raychaudhuri in that Arasaratnam definitively establishes a substantial growth of Coromandel's trade in the later seventeenth century, the peak coming possibly around the middle years when the coastal links worked effectively both with the western Indian Ocean...

...-volume history of Ceylon's journey into the 1960's. Recent developments are set in the perspective of a long personal association with the country and an understanding of underlying historical trends. W. HOWARD WRIGGINS Department of State, Washington, D. C. Ceylon. By S. ARASARATNAM. Englewood Cliffs, N...

...Henry Scholberg Maritime Trade, Society and European Influence in Southern Asia, 1600–1800 . By Sinnappah Arasaratnam . Aldershot : Variorum , 1995 . xii, 299 pp. $89.95 (cloth). Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century . By Sinnappah Arasaratnam . Delhi : Oxford University...

...Felix V. Gagliano Indians in Malaysia and Singapore . By Sinnappah Arasaratnam . London : Oxford University Press , 1970 . Published for the Institute of Race Relations, London, xii, 214 pp. Bibliography, Index. Paperback, $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... or seeking case studies from which to construct their own more comparative assessments of urbanization in nineteenth-century British India. HOWARD SPODEK Temple University Merchants, Companies, and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650-1740. By SINNAPPAH ARASARATNAM. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986...

... Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 553 intransigence and provocation the Federal view that there was a strongly centralized state Party's demand for virtual partition, for exam- and an extensive royal bureaucracy, particu- ple that Arasaratnam leaves...

... character which are difficult to substantiate" (p. 135), and ". . . it is not possible to confirm or deny such impressionistic assessments of entire communities . . ." (p. 76). Does Professor Arasaratnam believe such judgements are drivel? If so, why doesn't A. TEEUW he make his position clear? University...

... for each century viz., Genevieve Bouchon and Denys Lombard on the fifteenth century (setting the stage, as it were), Pearson on the sixteenth century, S. Arasaratnam on the seventeenth century, and Ashin Das Gupta on the eighteenth century. After this sweep the reader is treated to nine region...

... by Sinhalese. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 List of References Arasaratnam S. 1978 . “ Social History of a Dominant Caste Society .” Indian Economic and Social History Review 18 : 377 –91. Arasaratnam S. 1982 . The Historical Foundations of the Economy...

... century. Four well-written, substantial chapters survey broad trading, cultural, and political patterns: G. Bouchon and D. Lombard for the fifteenth century, M. N . Pearson for the sixteenth, S. Arasaratnam for the seventeenth, and Ashin Das Gupta for the eighteenth. Several regionally oriented...

... that there was "cooperation and conflict," and, if there was partnership, it took the form of "the horse and rider, with the white man as rider" (p. 97). This topic also dominates in the essays of M. N. Pearson, Om Prakash, Joseph Brennig, Ashin Das Gupta, S. Arasaratnam, and Rosane Rocher, whose contributions otherwise...

.... The late Sinnappah Arasaratnam in his last book described how in the 1770s the English East India Company began to set up direct relations with the actual producers of cloth, the weavers. Middle men were cut out, and the EIC got closer to controlling and subordinating the weavers (Sinnappah Arasaratnam...

... . Pearson for the sixteenth, S. Arasaratnam for the seventeenth, and Ashin Das Gupta for the eighteenth. Several regionally oriented contributions on Malabar (Genevieve Bouchon), on Ceylon (S. Arasaratnam), Indonesia (Ashin Das Gupta), South China (G. B. Souza), and East Africa (M. D. D. Newitt) follow...

... and Karwar, chapter 4 from Karwar to Cape Comorin, chapter 5 from Cape Comorin to Nellore, including the ports of Sri Lanka, and chapter 6 from Nellore to Chittagong. In the final chapter, Arasaratnam asks, "What justification is there for dividing the area into four zones: Gujarat, Malabar-Kanara...

...). Dutch rule followed, from 1658 to 1795. A firm and controlled administration was put in place that aimed less at social transformation than at extraction of resources. Arasaratnam ( 1981 ) sees the eighteenth century as a period of economic stability and perhaps even growth for some. It seems...

... ERNEST. A history of education in Historical and Political Sciences India and Pakistan. 3rd ed. Calcutta, O. U. P., ARASARATNAM, SINNAPPAH. Dutch power in Cey- 1959. x, 228 p. (Teaching in India series. 26) lon, 1658-1681. [Published under the auspices of LEPAITRE, GEORGE-PATRICK. India and Pakistan...

... ERNEST. A history of education in Historical and Political Sciences India and Pakistan. 3rd ed. Calcutta, O. U. P., ARASARATNAM, SINNAPPAH. Dutch power in Cey- 1959. x, 228 p. (Teaching in India series. 26) lon, 1658-1681. [Published under the auspices of LEPAITRE, GEORGE-PATRICK. India and Pakistan...