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58 relations: Ambalangoda, Avissawella, Beruwala, Boralesgamuwa, Ceylon Citizenship Act, Ceylon Workers' Congress, Ceylonese parliamentary election, 1952, Ceylonese parliamentary election, 1956, Civil disobedience, Colvin R. de Silva, Communist Party of Sri Lanka, D. S. Senanayake, Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Diospyros, Dominion of Ceylon, Dudley Senanayake, Edmund Samarakkody, Gampaha, Governor-General of Ceylon, Hartal, Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury, Hikkaduwa, HMS Newfoundland (59), J. R. Jayewardene, Ja-Ela, Jaffna Peninsula, John Kotelawala, Kalutara, Katukurunda Airport, Kolonnawa, Korean War, Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Leslie Goonewardena, Maharagama, Martial law, Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka), Negombo, Panadura, Peliyagoda, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ragama, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sinhala Only Act, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Sri Lanka leftist parties, Sri Lankan independence movement, ..., Strike action, United National Party, United Nations, University of California Press, Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Wattala, Wennappuwa, Western Province, Sri Lanka. Expand index (8 more) »
Ambalangoda
Ambalangoda is a coastal town located in Galle District, Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
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Avissawella
Avissawella, (අවිස්සාවේල්ල in Sinhala, அவிசாவளை in Tamil) is a township in Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council, situated on the A4 route from Colombo to Ratnapura, Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, approximately 59 km east of capital Colombo.
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Beruwala
Beruwala (Sinhala:බේරුවල Tamil: பேருவளை) is a town in Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council.
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Boralesgamuwa
Boralesgamuwa, Sri Lanka is on the Colombo-Horana Road about 14 km south-east of the commercial capital Colombo.
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Ceylon Citizenship Act
The Ceylon Citizenship Act No.
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Ceylon Workers' Congress
The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) (translit; ලංකා කම්කරු කොංග්රසය Lanka Kamkaru Kongrasaya) is a political party in Sri Lanka that has traditionally represented Tamils working in the plantation sector of the economy (Sri Lankan Tamils of Indian Origin).
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Ceylonese parliamentary election, 1952
General elections were held in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1952.
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Ceylonese parliamentary election, 1956
General elections were held in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956.
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Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government or occupying international power.
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Colvin R. de Silva
Colvin Reginald de Silva (1907–1989) (known as Colvin R. de Silva) was a former Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries and Constitutional Affairs, prominent member of parliament, Trotskyist leader and lawyer in Sri Lanka.
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Communist Party of Sri Lanka
The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (Sri Lankavay Komiyunist Pakshaya இலங்கை கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி) is a communist party in Sri Lanka.
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D. S. Senanayake
Don Stephen Senanayake (දොන් ස්ටීවන් සේනානායක; டி.; 21 October 1883 – 22 March 1952) was a Sri Lankan statesmen.
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Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (දෙහිවල-ගල්කිස්ස Dehiwala-Galkissa, தெஹிவளை-கல்கிசை), population 245,974 (2012) is the second largest Municipality in Sri Lanka, and covers an extent of 2109 hectares.
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Diospyros
Diospyros is a genus of over 700 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs.
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Dominion of Ceylon
Between 1948 and 1972, CeylonThe Sri Lanka Independence Act 1947 uses the name "Ceylon" for the new dominion; nowhere does that Act use the term "Dominion of Ceylon", which although sometimes used was not the official name.
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Dudley Senanayake
Dudley Shelton Senanayake (Sinhala: ඩඩ්ලි ශෙල්ටන් සේනානායක: டட்லி சேனநாயக்கா) 19 June 1911 – 13 April 1973), was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1952 to 1953 (first term as the second Prime Minister of Ceylon), in 1960 (second term) and from 1965 to 1970 (third term) and Leader of the Opposition from 1960 to 1964. Senanayake's tenures as prime minister were associated with democratic socialist policies focused on agricultural and educational reforms with a pro-western alignment.
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Edmund Samarakkody
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Gampaha
Gampaha (Sinhala: ගම්පහ; Tamil: கம்பஹா) is a major city in Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka.
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Governor-General of Ceylon
The governor-general of Ceylon was the representative of the monarch in the Dominion of Ceylon from the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 until it became the republic of Sri Lanka in 1972.
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Hartal
Hartal, also bandh, is a term in many South Asian languages for strike action, first used during the Indian Independence Movement (also known as the nationalist movement).
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Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury
Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury (6 March 1887 – 30 January 1971) was a British Conservative politician.
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Hikkaduwa
Hikkaduwa is a small town on the south coast of Sri Lanka located in the Southern Province, about north-west of Galle and south of Colombo.
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HMS Newfoundland (59)
HMS Newfoundland was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy.
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J. R. Jayewardene
Junius Richard Jayewardene (ජුනියස් රිචඩ් ජයවර්ධන,ஜூனியஸ் ரிச்சட் ஜயவர்தனா; 17 September 1906 – 1 November 1996), commonly abbreviated in Sri Lanka as J. R., was the leader of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1989, serving as Prime Minister from 1977 to 1978 and as the second President of Sri Lanka from 1978 till 1989.
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Ja-Ela
Ja-Ela is a suburb of Colombo, located approximately north of the Colombo city centre.
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Jaffna Peninsula
Jaffna Peninsula (யாழ்ப்பாணக் குடாநாடு, Yāḻppāṇa kuṭānāṭu) or (யாழ் குடாநாடு, Yāḻ kuṭānāṭu) is an area in Northern Province, Sri Lanka.
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John Kotelawala
General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala (ශ්රිමත් ජෝන් ලයනල් කොතලාවල; 4 April 1895 – 2 October 1980) was a Sri Lankan soldier and politician, most notable for serving as the 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from 1953 to 1956.
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Kalutara
Kalutara (කළුතර, களுத்துறை) or Kalutota is a major city in Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka.
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Katukurunda Airport
Katukurunda Airport (කටුකුරුන්ද ගුවන්තොටුපළ Katukurunda Guwanthotupala) is a domestic airport located near the town of Kalutara in Sri Lanka.
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Kolonnawa
Kolonnawa is a suburb of Colombo city, in Colombo District, Western Province of Sri Lanka.
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Korean War
The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).
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Lanka Sama Samaja Party
The Lanka Sama Samaja Party (literally Lanka Equal Society Party, in Sinhala: ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය, in Tamil: லங்கா சமசமாஜக் கட்சி) is a Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka.
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Leslie Goonewardena
Leslie Simon Goonewardena (31 October 1909 – 11 April 1983) was a prominent Sri Lankan independence activist, politician, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister.
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Maharagama
Maharagama is a large suburb of Colombo city in Colombo District, Sri Lanka on the High-Level (A4) Road about 15 km from the centre of the commercial capital.
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Martial law
Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civilian functions of government, especially in response to a temporary emergency such as invasion or major disaster, or in an occupied territory. Martial law can be used by governments to enforce their rule over the public.
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Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka)
The Minister of Finance is an appointment in the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.
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Negombo
Negombo is a major city in Sri Lanka, situated on the west coast and at the mouth of the Negombo Lagoon, in Western Province.
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Panadura
Panadura (Sinhala: පානදුර, Tamil: பாணந்துறை) is a large town in Kalutara District, Western Province in Sri Lanka.
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Peliyagoda
Peliyagoda is a suburb of Colombo city in the Western Province of Sri Lanka.
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Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
The Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (ශ්රී ලංකා අග්රාමාත්ය; இலங்கை பிரதமர்) is the most senior member of parliament in the cabinet of ministers in Sri Lanka which is collectively accountable for their policies and actions to parliament.
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Ragama
Ragama (රාගම ரா௧ம) is a town/suburb of Colombo, located in the Western Province, Sri Lanka.
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S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (සොලමන් වෙස්ට් රිජ්වේ ඩයස් බණ්ඩාරනායක,சாலமன் வெஸ்ட் ரிட்ஜ்வே டயஸ் பண்டாரநாயக்கா; 8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), frequently referred to as S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, was the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) and founder of the left wing and Sinhala nationalist Sri Lanka Freedom Party, serving as Prime Minister from 1956 until his assassination by a robed Buddhist monk in 1959.
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Sabaragamuwa Province
The Sabaragamuwa Province, (සබරගමුව පළාත Sabaragamuwa Palata, சபரகமுவ மாகாணம் Sabaragamuwa Maakaanam) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country.
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Sinhala Only Act
The Sinhala Only Act, formally the Official Language Act No.
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Southern Province, Sri Lanka
The Southern Province (දකුණු පළාත Dakunu Palata, தென் மாகாணம் Thaen Maakaanam) of Sri Lanka is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country.
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Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (commonly known as Kotte) is the official, administrative capital of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Sri Lanka Freedom Party
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (translit; translit) is one of the major political parties in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka leftist parties
During the Donoughmore period of political experimentation (1931–48), several Sri Lanka leftist parties were formed in British colonial Ceylon.
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Sri Lankan independence movement
The Sri Lankan independence movement was a peaceful political movement which aimed at achieving independence and self-rule for Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, from the British Empire.
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Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
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United National Party
The United National Party, often abbreviated as UNP (translit, translit), is a political party in Sri Lanka.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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University of California Press
University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party
Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary Ceylon Equal Society Party) was a political group in what is now called Sri Lanka, that broke away from the Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party, since Philip Gunawardena (one of the principal LSSP leaders) refused to reconcile with the Bolshevik Samasamaja Party.
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Wattala
Wattala (Sinhalese: වත්තල) is a large suburb of Colombo city, in Western Province, Sri Lanka, situated around 9km from Colombo city centre.
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Wennappuwa
Wennappuwa is a town in Puttalam District, located in the North Western Province, Sri Lanka.
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Western Province, Sri Lanka
The Western Province (බස්නාහිර පළාත Basnahira Palata; மேல் மாகாணம் Mael Maakaanam) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ceylonese_Hartal
