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