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Thanks are due to the many colleagues at the Institute for Health Policy in Sri Lanka who responded to queries with invaluable information. Alicia Hetmer and Rosemary Esber edited the final report.
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Esber’s work both challenges and complements the archival historiography of 1948.
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Rosemarie Esber, for example, has put her degrees from London and Johns Hopkins universities to good use....
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