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THE results, and still more the methods of electioneering, in the recent general election for seats on the State Council of Ceylon, afford an instructive, if somewhat alarming, example of the effects of the break in tradition, which comes with the wholesale application of the machinery of Western democracy to an Eastern society, in which the exercise of individual judgment has had neither training nor opportunity to function independently of the social or religious communal group. Everywhere religion and caste dictated the decision of the electors.
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Electioneering in Ceylon. Nature 137, 570 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137570b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137570b0