• Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam MP (Tamil: சாமுவேல் ஜேம்ஸ் வேலுப்பிள்ளை செல்வநாயகம், romanized: Cāmuvēl Jēms Vēluppiḷḷai Celvanāyakam; 31 March...
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  • (born 1936), Sri Lankan politician S. Selvanayagam (1932–1979), Ceylonese geographer and academic S. J. V. Chelvanayakam (1898–1977), Ceylonese politician...
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    Liberation Front (TULF), which was led by prominent Tamil politician S. J. V. Chelvanayakam. In 1976, the first national convention of the TULF was held at...
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    group of three Ceylon Tamil parliamentarians, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, C. Vanniasingam and Senator E. M. V. Naganathan, who had withdrawn from G. G. Ponnambalam's...
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  • Bandaranaike and the leader of the main Tamil political party in Sri Lanka S. J. V. Chelvanayakam on July 26, 1957. It advocated the creation of a series of regional...
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    their right to vote. Prominent Tamil political leaders such as S. J. V. Chelvanayakam and his Tamil opposition party opposed this move. Under an agreement...
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    by the island's minorities. When Bandaranaike came to an agreement with S.J.V. Chelvanayagam in 1957, to solve the outstanding problems of the minorities...
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    Senanayake, First Prime Minister of Sri Lanka by H. A. J. Hulugalle (The Island) Retrieved 2015-11-08 D. S. Senanayake: A leader with extraordinary vision by...
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  • which around 70 leading Tamil lawyers, including Ponnambalam and S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, acted for the defence. Ponnambalam became the political leader...
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    prompted Bandaranaike to reach an agreement (Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact) with S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the FP, to resolve the looming ethnic conflict...
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  • which 72 Tamil lawyers including S. J. V. Chelvanayakam and G. G. Ponnambalam acted for the defence. S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the TULF and ITAK,...
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  • Eelam by the Tamil United Liberation Front under the leadership of S. J. V. Chelvanayakam. It was a major event in the modern history of Sri Lanka, as it...
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  • was defeated by the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) candidate S. J. V. Chelvanayakam. However, he won the 1952 parliamentary elections and entered Parliament...
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  • political career alongside the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi leader, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, with whom he was very closely associated in all his political activities...
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    programmes before marrying and raising a family. Playing hostess to her husband S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who founded the socialist SLFP in 1951 and became...
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    October, which had been organized by J. R. Jayewardene. The march was disrupted at Imbulgoda by thugs led by S. D. Bandaranayake. Premadasa was elected...
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    1970. LLD (honorary) - University of Ceylon S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike cabinet Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact List of political families in Sri Lanka...
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    Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party) in 1956. ITAK leader S. J. V. Chelvanayakam offered Sampanthan nomination in 1963 and 1970 but Sampanthan declined...
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  • Mupnar, prominent politician and a member of Fiji Labour Party, Fiji S. J. V. Chelvanayakam (1898–1977), leader and father figure of Sri Lankan Tamils Savumiamoorthy...
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    Kiong, Hong Kong Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food 2002–2004 S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, Member of the Ceylonese Parliament 1956–1977 Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah...
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  • had gotten admitted at the college through the recommendation of S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the Federal Party and Member of Parliament. At the time...
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  • Among them were ITAK MPs A. Amirthalingam, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, V. Dharmalingam, V. A. Kandiah, Naganathan, V. N. Navaratnam and K. Thurairatnam. A large...
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  • Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact. Navaratnam stood as ITAK's candidate in the constituency in the 1963 by-election following the sitting MP V. A. Kandiah's...
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  • Thangathurai Velupillai Prabhakaran Sivakumaran Jeganathan Rajasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam Black July "Tamil Armed Resistance". TamilNation.org. 29 December...
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    leader S. J. V. Chelvanayakam wrote to Bandaranaike on 4 June stating their decision, to which Bandaranaike issued a severe warning. Chelvanayakam responded...
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  • Canagaratnam Maha Vidyalayam (formerly Stanley College) in Jaffna S. J. V. Chelvanayakam - political leader of the Sri Lankan Tamil people; founder and leader...
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    miscalculation, as the passengers were mainly Sinhala and not Tamil. S. J. V. Chelvanayakam argued that it was unlikely that any person with abiding interests...
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  • but was defeated by the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi candidate S. J. V. Chelvanayakam. Suntharalingam spent his later years in Vavuniya where he died...
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  • them were ITAK MPs A. Amirthalingam, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, Dharmalingam, V. A. Kandiah, E. M. V. Naganathan, V. N. Navaratnam and K. Thurairatnam. A...
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    coalition), and three opposition MPs (J. R. Jayewardene and Dudley Senanayake from the UNP, and S. J. V. Chelvanayakam from the Federal Party). Moreover,...
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