Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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Leonard Woolf. of Empire and imperial government , 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 ...
Leonard Woolf. of Empire and imperial government , 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 ...
Page 164
... Kandyan Sinhalese and my relations with them , as I have said , I was too much tied to my office in Kandy and only rarely could get away into their vil- lages . But I got to know a good deal about them from enquiries which I had to hold ...
... Kandyan Sinhalese and my relations with them , as I have said , I was too much tied to my office in Kandy and only rarely could get away into their vil- lages . But I got to know a good deal about them from enquiries which I had to hold ...
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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