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The Tamil crowd swarming on the station platforms or in the villages or in the
Jaffna streets has a look and air of its own, much less animated (unless it is angry
) and less gay than the Sinhalese in Colombo or Kandy or the Southern Province.
The Tamil crowd swarming on the station platforms or in the villages or in the
Jaffna streets has a look and air of its own, much less animated (unless it is angry
) and less gay than the Sinhalese in Colombo or Kandy or the Southern Province.
Page 93
In the koddu we had an interpreter, some police constables, and a few Tamils
whose duty it was to take over the Government's shares of the oysters and ... The
Tamil crowd was low in tone, rather timid, depressed and complaining in
adversity.
In the koddu we had an interpreter, some police constables, and a few Tamils
whose duty it was to take over the Government's shares of the oysters and ... The
Tamil crowd was low in tone, rather timid, depressed and complaining in
adversity.
Page 113
The Governor and the Government accepted my explanation, but I doubted —
and doubt — whether the Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara believed or
accepted it. It shocked me that these people should think / that, as a white man
and ...
The Governor and the Government accepted my explanation, but I doubted —
and doubt — whether the Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara believed or
accepted it. It shocked me that these people should think / that, as a white man
and ...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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