British Colonial Socio-Political Distinctions via Stace’s Revelation of Life in Galle, 1910 et seq – By Michael Roberts Sourcs:- thuppahis Walter Terence STACE was a British man born in Ireland in 1886 who entered the British colonial service after a university education and was assigned to Sri Lanka in 1910. He married a Burgher lady, MM Beven in 1928 – is second marriage this – and then resigned in 1932 and moved on to USA where he pursued a successful university teaching career in Philosophy. Following his retirement, he composed an autobiography in 1964 with the intriguing title FOOTPRINTS ON WATER. This work has been edited by Bernd Pflug with an excellent and readable “Critique” at the end of the autobiography and presented in Sri Lanka in a slim volume of 218 pages by the Perera Hussein Publishing House. Walter Stace’s reflections are presented in a lucid and clinical manner that should be ...
Feb 24, 2025
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