PART IV.CHAP. II.CHAPTER I.
POPULATION, CASTE, SLAVERY, AND RAJA-KARIYA.
- Population encouraged by the fertility of Ceylon
[421]
- Evidence of its former extent in the ruins of the tanks and
canals [422]
- Means by which the population was preserved [423]
- Causes of its dispersion—the ruin of the tanks [424]
- Domestic life similar to that of the Hindus [425]
- Respect shown to females [425]
- Caste perpetuated in defiance of religious prohibition [425]
- Particulars in which caste in Ceylon differs from caste in
India [425]
- Slavery, borrowed from Hindustan [425]
- Compulsory labour or Raja-kariya [426]
- Mode of enforcing it [427]