• ISBN 978-0-521-22069-9. "I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle - Visionary and Statesman". Sunday Observer. Retrieved 14 June 2020. "I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla: He was courageous"...
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    September 1906 – 1 November 1996), commonly abbreviated in Sri Lanka as J.R., was a Sri Lankan lawyer, public official and statesman who served as Prime Minister...
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    Lanka, a Country Study. Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. p. 197. "S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike – prime minister of Sri Lanka". Encyclopædia Britannica. "S.W.R.D. Bandaranayaka"...
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  • to arrest the leaders of the LSSP. On 18 June 1940, N.M. Perera, Philip Gunawardena, and Colvin R de Silva were arrested by the police with Edmund Samarakkody...
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  • into a house in Bullers Road (Baudhaloka Mawatha) in the Cinnamon Gardens area of Colombo. The house was shared with other leading TULF politicians (M. Sivasithamparam...
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    Terana Sariffodeen (Sunday Times) Retrieved 2015-11-08 J.R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka: 1906–1956 by K. M. De Silva, William Howard Wriggins, p. 127-8 & 168-70...
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  • 2001). "S. L. Gunasekara takes on A. Vinayagamoorthy M.P." The Island. Reddy, L. R. (2003). Sri Lanka Past and Present. A. P. H. Publishing Corporation....
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    election from the Ruwanwella electorate but lost to N. M. Perera. Following his defeat, he joined J. R. Jayewardene working for the party reorganization under...
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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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  • J. Emmanuel Basil Fernando Susitha R. Fernando Vijita Fernando Thevis Guruge Tim Horshington I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle Isaipriya Victor Ivan Balanadarajah...
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    He initiated a guaranteed price scheme for paddy and farmers. He received the portfolios of Health and Local Government when S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike...
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  • Rasheed M. "A true leader of the nation - Deshamanya Al-Haj M. A. Bakeer Markar". Daily News. Retrieved 17 May 2023. "A symbol of national unity: M. A. Bakir...
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    Amarasuriya, Dudley Senanayake, J. R. Jayewardene, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, Dr. N. M. Perera and others. There was also a public campaign launched by E. W...
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  • University of London in 1918. At St. Thomas Chelvanayakam was a contemporary of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, future Prime Minister of Ceylon. After graduation...
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    various social programmes before marrying and raising a family. Playing hostess to her husband S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who founded the socialist SLFP in...
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  • I.M.R.A. Iriyagolla (Independents) The alliance won the 1956 elections and formed the government. The MEP alliance fell apart Mr I.M.R.A. Iriyagolle resigned...
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    gathered around him several like-minded Ceylonese, including N. M. Perera, Colvin R de Silva and Leslie Goonewardene. They came to be known as the 'T-Group'...
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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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    with a brief interval in 1960. In 1956, he was appointed to the Cabinet of Ministers as the Minister of Education. He unexpectedly succeeded S. W. R. D...
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  • politics from the newly formed Sri Lanka Freedom Party, he played a major role in S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike's landslide victory in the 1956 general elections...
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  • other candidate, A. R. A. Razik (representing the United National Party), by 1,899 votes. Razik was a prominent Muslim leader and a founding member of...
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  • was his brother-in-law. He was a cousin of R. S. F. de Mel, former mayor of Colombo. "Hon. de Mel, Reginald Abraham, M.P." Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved...
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  • Indrani Iriyagolle (c. 1933-2015) was a well-known figure[weasel words] in Sri Lanka for rehabilitation, welfare, women's rights and humanitarian work...
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  • United National Party, obtained 14,007 votes with a majority of 8,022 and won the seat. When S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, disgruntled over the policies of...
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  • defeated both the Sri Lanka Freedom Party candidate, P. M. Jayasena, and the sitting member, R. S. Pelpola, polling 7,950 votes (43% of the total vote)...
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  • October 1962, whilst still in office. His parliamentary seat was taken up by D. M. Tilakaratne Bandara, who was elected at the Parliamentary by-election held...
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  • the Colombo New Theater Grounds, Sri Lanka. Minister of Education I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle was the chief guest at the awards night. The film Binaramalee won...
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  • Razik Fareed (category Ceylonese military personnel of World War I)
    OBE, JP, UM (29 December 1893 – 23 August 1984), also known as A. R. A. Razik, was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) landed proprietor, politician and philanthropist...
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  • Secretary with A. R. A. Razik and J. R. Jayawardene as Join Treasurers, which was carried unanimously. H. W. Amarasuriya later became a vice president...
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  • independent M. E. H. Mohammed Ali at the 1952 parliamentary election. He tried to re-enter Parliament at the March 1960 parliamentary election as a Lanka Democratic...
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