his ecclesiastical, educational and political activities in Ceylon, 1904-1924
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Loughborough University of Technology
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1990
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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Ph.D.
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Loughborough University of Technology
Text preceding or following the note
1990
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Alek Fraser spent most of his adult life in the world of education in the British colonies. His tenure of office as Principal of Trinity College, Kandy, one of Ceylon's most prestigious schools for boys, ran from 1904 to 1924 and covered a period of immense educational, societal and political change. Fraser's own vision of his task was to create an environment in which indigenous Christianity would develop within the island. For Fraser the whole future of the colony depended upon the success of this venture, the creation of a truly Eastern nation rooted in an indigenous leadership committed to Christianity.