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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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One side of the Fort had been converted into a prison and along another side a row of bungalows had been built in which lived the Superintendent of Police , the Assistant Superintendent of Police , and the District Judge .
One side of the Fort had been converted into a prison and along another side a row of bungalows had been built in which lived the Superintendent of Police , the Assistant Superintendent of Police , and the District Judge .
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By a series of accidents the Assistant Agency at Mannar became vacant . Government wired to the G.A. telling him to send me and actually appointed me to act as Assistant Agent . It was where I acted before for a month , but it is almost ...
By a series of accidents the Assistant Agency at Mannar became vacant . Government wired to the G.A. telling him to send me and actually appointed me to act as Assistant Agent . It was where I acted before for a month , but it is almost ...
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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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