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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... office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge of an Assistant Government Agent ( the A.G.A. ) , a civil servant of ...
... office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge of an Assistant Government Agent ( the A.G.A. ) , a civil servant of ...
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... ( 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 . It ...
... ( 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 . It ...
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Leonard Woolf. There was a bungalow for the Office Assistant , a curious building up on a bank behind the great Temple of the Tooth , the Dalada Maligawa . It was a dark house , rather gloomy . For the first three months another civil ...
Leonard Woolf. There was a bungalow for the Office Assistant , a curious building up on a bank behind the great Temple of the Tooth , the Dalada Maligawa . It was a dark house , rather gloomy . For the first three months another civil ...
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