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a I had to spend the night at Anuradhapura , and I was asked to dinner by the Government Agent , C. T. D. Vigors , at the Residency . Here I had my first plunge into the social life of a Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to ...
a I had to spend the night at Anuradhapura , and I was asked to dinner by the Government Agent , C. T. D. Vigors , at the Residency . Here I had my first plunge into the social life of a Ceylon civil servant , a life in which I was to ...
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In charge of the Province was a Government Agent ( always referred to as the G.A. ) , a senior civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of ...
In charge of the Province was a Government Agent ( always referred to as the G.A. ) , a senior civil servant of 20 years ' service or more . The Provincial government office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of ...
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A. ( Office Assistant to the Government Agent ) who might have anything from one to six years ' service ; the junior was called a Cadet , and every civil servant when he first arrived was attached to some provincial kachcheri as Cadet .
A. ( Office Assistant to the Government Agent ) who might have anything from one to six years ' service ; the junior was called a Cadet , and every civil servant when he first arrived was attached to some provincial kachcheri as Cadet .
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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