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Leonard Woolf: He penned his love for Sri Lanka in ‘Village in the Jungle’-by Raja Waidyasekera  Source:Dailynews Leonard Woolf who served as a colonial Assistant Government Agent in Hambantota was the author of the renowned novel ‘Village in the Jungle’. During his tenure as the Assistant Government Agent of the Hambantota District from 1908 to 1911, Woolf visited villages and jungles in Hambantota on his bicycle or a pony’s back. He conducted his inspections under the shade of massive trees. He was very much attached and devoted to his job. Realising the inconvenience and issues faced by villagers who were involved in chena cultivation, he, while holding the colonial administrative office in Hambantota, fought for the rights of villagers, when the colonial Government attempted to impose legal barriers on chena cultivation. He understood the pathetic plight of poor villagers whose sole sustenance was chena and paddy cultivation. Woolf had recorded ...