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 93
... Kandyan throne led to a consequent modification in dress in the Kandyan provinces : the osariya style of sari was widely adopted by Kandyan upper - class women . Ironically the osariya , a form of sari with a frill at the waist , with a ...
... Kandyan throne led to a consequent modification in dress in the Kandyan provinces : the osariya style of sari was widely adopted by Kandyan upper - class women . Ironically the osariya , a form of sari with a frill at the waist , with a ...
Page 138
... Kandyan provinces and had married a Kandyan woman under the Kandyan marriage law , was held not to be a Kandyan . " As to the applicability of Kandyan law to Europeans and others residing in the Kandyan provinces , Mr. Maartenz writes ...
... Kandyan provinces and had married a Kandyan woman under the Kandyan marriage law , was held not to be a Kandyan . " As to the applicability of Kandyan law to Europeans and others residing in the Kandyan provinces , Mr. Maartenz writes ...
Page 260
... Kandyan provinces and the means of superseding Kandyan law and judicial institutions in many respects . While the customary law of the Sinhalese had disappeared in the maritime regions , a version of it existed in the Kandyan provinces ...
... Kandyan provinces and the means of superseding Kandyan law and judicial institutions in many respects . While the customary law of the Sinhalese had disappeared in the maritime regions , a version of it existed in the Kandyan provinces ...
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