Alexander Ekanayake Gunasinha (1 May 1891 – 1 August 1967) was a Sri Lankan trade unionist and politician. A pioneering trade union leader, known as the...
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Ponnambalam Arunachalam Ponnambalam Ramanathan Tuan Burhanudeen Jayah A. Ekanayake Gunasinha Arthur V. Dias Charles Edgar Corea Don Baron Jayatilaka George E...
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සේනානායක; Tamil: டி. எஸ். சேனநாயக்கா; 20 October 1884 – 22 March 1952) was a Ceylonese statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon having emerged...
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Henry Woodward Amarasuriya (14 October 1904 – 6 March 1981) was a Ceylonese plantation owner, politician, educationist and philanthropist. He was the...
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ශෙල්ටන් සේනානායක: Tamil: டட்லி சேனநாயக்கா; 19 June 1911 – 13 April 1973), was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1952 to 1953...
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Poll tax (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
protested the tax, led by A. Ekanayake Gunasinha, and it was repealed by the Legislative Council of Ceylon in 1925 following a motion submitted by C. H...
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The 1st Parliament of Ceylon was a meeting of the Parliament of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1947 parliamentary election...
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Heen Banda Udurawana (15 December 1900 – 31 August 1989) was a member of the Senate of Ceylon and 16th Diyawadana Nilame of the Temple of the Tooth, Kandy...
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Sir Joseph Aloysius Donatus Victoria, CBE was a British politician. He was one of the first elected members of the Senate of Ceylon. He was appointed...
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1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion...
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a leader of the nationalist movement in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) who served in a variety of cabinet positions in the decades following independence. A longtime...
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4 May 1997) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was the Prime Minister of Ceylon from September 1959 to March 1960. Born to as twin to a conservative family...
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or A. F. Molamure) was a Ceylonese politician. He became the first speaker of both the State Council of Ceylon and Parliament of Ceylon. He was a controversial...
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"Ceylon Today," December 1954 "Archives nationales (France) - Base de données Leonore/recherche". Retrieved 6 August 2020. "Le onorificenze della Repubblica...
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This is a list of notable Josephian, alumni of Saint Joseph's College, Maradana, Sri Lanka. Although Peiris studied partially at St. Joseph's College...
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This is a list of Old Rajans, they being the alumni of Dharmaraja College, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Dharmaraja College "Old Rajans to fete distinguished old...
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Ponnambalam Arunachalam Ponnambalam Ramanathan Tuan Burhanudeen Jayah A. Ekanayake Gunasinha Arthur V. Dias Charles Edgar Corea Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka George...
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Sivapalan was a Ceylon Tamil politician and Member of Parliament. Sivapalan was born around 1890. He was the son of M. Subramaniam, a Secretary of the...
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Silva (1907 – 27 February 1989; commonly known as Colvin R. de Silva) was a Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries and Constitutional Affairs...
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Edmund de Silva (Sinhala ජෝර්ජ් ඊ. ද සිල්වා; 8 June 1879 - 12 March 1950) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician. He was the first Cabinet Minister of Industries...
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Saumiyamoorthy Thondaman) was a Sri Lankan politician who represented the Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka of which he was a member. At the time of his death...
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worked as a teacher before studying law at Ceylon Law College and qualifying as lawyer. A successful career in civil law saw him becoming a King's Counsel...
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Abraham Perera (1905–1973) was a Sri Lankan statesman and philanthropist. He was declared a National Hero in 1993. A member of parliament, he was Ceylon's...
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Thomas Amarasuriya, OBE (17 June 1907 – 5 May 1979) was a Ceylonese planter and politician. He was a member of the State Council of Ceylon and President of...
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1967) was a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament who represented the Beliatta electorate in Hambantota district from 1947 to 1965. A founding...
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Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). He was the first Trotskyist to become a cabinet minister. He served two terms as Minister of Finance and Leader of...
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father Dr O.A. de Silva, was a registered medical practitioner attached to the Department of Health. He had a younger brother Colvin who became a Trotskyist...
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(Tamil: கணபதி காங்கேசர் பொன்னம்பலம்; 8 November 1901 – 9 February 1977) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and cabinet minister. He was the founder and...
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Wickremasinghe (25 December 1899 – ?) was a Sri Lankan politician and member of parliament. He was the older brother of Dr. S. A. Wickremasinghe, the leader of the...
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Suntharalingam (Tamil: செல்லப்பா சுந்தரலிங்கம்; 19 August 1895 – 11 February 1985) was a Sri Lankan Tamil academic, politician, Member of Parliament and government...
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