Amidst all the chaos of political violence, Sri Lanka is engaged in fashioning a workable system of regional self-government which will interest the other South Asians. dev.o.lu.tion (dĕv′ə-loo'shən) n.
- A passing down through successive stages. 2. The passing to a successor of anything, such as properties, rights, and qualities. 3. A delegating of authorities or duties to a subordinate or substitute. 4. Biological degeneration, as distinguished from evolution.
(The American Heritage Dictionary)
Leonard Woolf, a literary critic and pub Usher, a colonial civil servant in Ceylon from 1904 to 1911, served both in Jaffna in the extreme north and in Hambantota in the deep south. Many years later in 1938, as an adviser to the Labour Party, he reflected on the questions of minority protection and constitutional reform.