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Colombo, Ceylon: Ceylon Institute of World Affairs, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. viii, 262 pp. First Edition, inscribed by Kodikara on the verso of the half title. As issued in paper over boards with title stamped on the front cover and the spine. Corners and spine ends are softened; previous owner name (same name to whom Kodikara inscribed the book) on the front free endpaper, otherwise the textblock is clean. Dust jacket has a chip at the top of the front panel and is lightly edgeworn.
Communalism and Political Modernisation in Ceylon by S U Kodikara - 1970
by S U Kodikara
Communalism and Political Modernisation in Ceylon
by S U Kodikara
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- Signed
Peradeniya: University of Ceylon, 1970. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Offprint from Modern Ceylon Studies: A Journal of the Social Sciences, vol 1, Number 1, January 1970, pp 94-114. In very good condition in pictorial card wrappers, with rust marks from the staples to the covers and internally. Signed by the author to the upper cover. From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1972. Very Good 1970
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (GB)
- Format/Binding 220 x 143 mm
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher University of Ceylon
- Place of Publication Peradeniya
- Date Published 1970