Trade and accumulation in the pre –plantation economy, The beginnings of the bourgeoisie, Taking off through the attack trade, Multi-caste class formation, Transition to a plantation economy, Marketing attack among workers and peasants, Profits in the liquor trade, Merchant capitalists spread their wings, Recasting caste in class society, The Sinhala bourgeoisie of ‘Nobodies’ and ‘Somebodies’, The creation of the Colombo tamil bourgeoisie, Constructing Muslim identity, Burghers and Eurasians as modernizers, Christianization and cultural assimilation, Religious revival and the bourgeoisie, The debut of the bourgeois woman, The politics of loyalty and royalty, Class and caste in national politics, Political capital and dynasty