• Nanayakkarapathirage Martin Perera, commonly known as Dr. N. M. Perera (Sinhala එන්.එම්.පෙරේරා [en em pe reaira]; 6 June 1904 – 14 August 1979), was one...
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  • politician Noemí Santana Perera, a member of the Podemos party of Spain N. M. Perera, Sri Lankan politician Reginald Perera (1915-1977), Sri Lankan Sinhala...
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    Kotelawala's attempts to remove the then-incumbent Mayor of Colombo, Dr N. M. Perera of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party. In 1955, Premadasa succeeded T. Rudra...
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    British Ceylon), having been founded in 1935 by Leslie Goonewardene, N.M. Perera, Colvin R. de Silva, Philip Gunawardena and Robert Gunawardena. It currently...
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    the deputation, N. M. Perera was arrested by the police, but the workers refused to come to a settlement in his absence. In the end Perera was released and...
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    of an anti-Christian campaign against his opponent the nationalist E. W. Perera. During World War II, Jayewardene, along with other nationalists, contacted...
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    he had gathered around him several like-minded Ceylonese, including N. M. Perera, Colvin R de Silva and Leslie Goonewardene. They came to be known as...
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    "Speech on the Nationalization of Bus Services" (PDF). SWRD Bandaranaike. n.d. Abayasekara, Anne (22 May 2011). "Times of triumph and tribulation written...
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  • attending to affairs of the electorate, gaining experience in politics. D. M. received 17,046 votes in the 1936 State Council election in Hambantota. On...
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    Dodangaslanda electorate, however, he did not attend parliament often since Dr N. M. Perera had become the Leader of the Opposition. He returned the party leadership...
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    Senanayake/Dudley Senanayake Leader of the Opposition: N. M. Perera Central Province (15) M. D. Banda George E. de Silva T. B. Ilangaratne, Tamara Kumari...
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    1884 to Don Spater Senanayake (1847–1907) and Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunasekera Senanayake (1852–1949). Spater Senanayake had made his fortune...
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    founded Sri Lanka's first political party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and N. M. Perera, who served as leader of the opposition and the first Trotskyist to become...
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  • leadership of the Samasamajists more and more. The Trotskyist leader N. M. Perera addressed a large meeting in Badulla on 12 May, and the police were powerless...
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    Mrs B, or Mathini. Rettie 2000. The Economist 2000. Moritz 1961, p. 23. Perera 2016. Richards 2014, p. 194. Jeyaraj 2016. Lokubandara 2005. Fernando 2015b...
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  • elections along with all the leftists who contested. After the death of Dr. N. M. Perera the LSSP leader, Colvin de Silva became the leader and the party nominated...
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    Supreme Court of Ceylon and briefly embanked on a legal practice under H. V. Perera, KC, before entering politics on his father's urging. He was elected from...
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  • (1972–2000) Sai Senanayakerajah 1972–1976 Maj. Gen. Bertram Heyn 1976–1978 Dr. N. M. Perera 1978–1979 T. B. Werapitiya 1979–1981 Gamini Dissanayake 1981–1989 Lakshman...
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  • Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and party secretary. She was married to Dr N. M. Perera, who became the leader of the LSSP. Born Selina Margaret Peiris to a...
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  • Philip Gunawardena, Robert Gunawardena, Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe and Dr. N. M. Perera. While being a teacher, he continued his academic pursuit and obtained...
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  • attacked by a Sinhalese mob as the police looked on, and ITAK MPs E. M. V. Naganathan and V. N. Navaratnam were thrown in Beira Lake. With escalating discrimination...
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  • Attorneys-at-laws. In 1975, he was appointed Minister of Finance succeeding N. M. Perera after he and other LSSP ministers were sacked by Sirima Bandaranaike...
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    a state of emergency to be imposed. The Leader of the Opposition Dr. N. M. Perera accused the Prime Minister of being 24 hours too late in taking action...
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    Dudley Senanayake, J. R. Jayewardene, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, Dr. N. M. Perera and others. There was also a public campaign launched by E. W. Adikaram...
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    longest speech. He later re-joined the Lanka Sama Samaja Party under Dr N. M. Perera and successfully contested the 1952 general elections from the Lanka...
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  • Ceylon. Modern Asian Studies, 2(3), 193-220. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00001748 Perera, K.K.S. "The toppling of the Sirimavo Bandaranaike govt. in 1964". Daily...
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  • Own. Routledge. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-415-66774-6. Coomaraswamy, Radhika; Perera-Rajasingham, Nimanthi (2009). "Chapter 6 – Being Tamil in a Different Way:...
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  • 2006). "Dr. N. M. Perera: The first Leftist Mayor of Colombo". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka). Wijenayake, Walter (13 August 2009). "Dr. N. M. Perera: a politician...
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    E. (14 August 2012). "Dr N M Perera's 33rd death anniversary : Doughty fighter and man of principles". Daily News.; Perera, T. (2006). Revolutionary...
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  • Ceylonese progressives and the future leaders of the Left movement such as N. M. Perera, Colvin R. de Silva and Leslie Goonewardene, who were also studying in...
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