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READ AN EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK

Click the links below to read a selected excerpt from Thomia

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Cricketers & debaters in the 1880s (from Ch. 16)

Rent-lords and temperance activists (from Ch. 22)

Settling in at Mount Lavinia in 1918 (from Ch. 29)

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Donoughmore & the dawn of Lankan democracy (from Ch. 36)

A cultural flowering (from Ch. 42)

Liberty and its discontents (from Ch. 51)

The wisdom of Rollo Hayman (from Ch. 63)

A historical turning-point (from Ch. 74)

Last of the great wardens (from Ch. 79)

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