Caste Systems Exercising By Tamil Community in Sri Lanka

This study analyzes the practices of social stratification along the lines of stratification theory and relevant published materials. This paper highlighted the social stratification, especially social class, and caste systems exercising by the Sinhalese community in Sri Lanka. This study found that the social class has developed among Sinhalese historically, and Sinhalese and Tamils who make up the majority of the population in the country have their own distinctive caste system consequently and this paper focuses on how people in Kandyan, Southam peasantries have been involved in the market-oriented development process, and in particular, why the low and up caste people in these highland peasantries benefitted from education, once they have secured their economic gains while the high caste people have not.