Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 157
... Kandyan , I said , grovels on the ground and touches your boots , but has retained his independence and his manners . This letter reflects my growing awareness of the problem of imperialism and my personal relation to it in the plains ...
... Kandyan , I said , grovels on the ground and touches your boots , but has retained his independence and his manners . This letter reflects my growing awareness of the problem of imperialism and my personal relation to it in the plains ...
Page 158
... Kandyan society in these villages was purely feudal . The Nugawelas , Rat- wattes , and all the other great Kandyan landowning families were feudal chiefs , and the procession , and tom - toms , and prostrations which greeted the O.A. ...
... Kandyan society in these villages was purely feudal . The Nugawelas , Rat- wattes , and all the other great Kandyan landowning families were feudal chiefs , and the procession , and tom - toms , and prostrations which greeted the O.A. ...
Page 170
... Kandyan dancing . He hoped that , if I could do this , I would come and dine with them and manage the thing ... Kandyan dancing ever seen in the Kandyan district . He really did so and it was superb . He turned out all his retainers and ...
... Kandyan dancing . He hoped that , if I could do this , I would come and dine with them and manage the thing ... Kandyan dancing ever seen in the Kandyan district . He really did so and it was superb . He turned out all his retainers and ...
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