Coffee holds the preeminent place in the…

1840 CE to 1851 CE

Coffee holds the preeminent place in the Ceylonese economy between 1830 and 1850, and becomes a catalyst for the island's modernization.

The greater availability of capital and the increase in export trade brings the rudiments of capitalist organization to the country.

The Ceylon Bank opens in 1841 to finance the rapid expansion of coffee plantations.

Since the main center of coffee production is in the Kandyan provinces, the expansion of coffee and the network of roads and railroads ends the isolation of the old Kandyan kingdom.

The coffee plantation system serves as the economic foundation for the unification of the island while reinforcing the administrative and judicial reforms of the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission.

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Tamil people View → Sinhalese people View → East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies) View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Ceylon, British Crown Colony of View →

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Colonization of Asia, British View →

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