| Evidence: | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907:
'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I have for the first time read The Competition Wallah. It is extraordinary; it might be the Northern Province in 1907 instead of Bengal in the sixties.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 28 Apr 1907 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Ceylon | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Jaffna (province) | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Leonard Woolf |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 25 Nov 1880 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Colonial civil servant |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Ceylon |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Sir George Otto Trevelyan |
| Title: | The Competition Wallah |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel, Politics, ?fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1868 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19792 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Frederic Spotts | |
| Title: | Letters of Leonard Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 127 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 127, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19792, accessed: 08 June 2023 | |
| Source ed. explains at p.127 n.2 that 'The term competition wallah is an Anglo-Indian colloquialism referring to persons admitted to the Indian Civil Service by competitive examination rather than through family or political connections.' |
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