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Ceylon National Congress

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The Ceylon National Congress (CNC) was a Nationalist political party which was formed in Ceylon on 11 December 1919. [1]

19 relations: British Ceylon, British Empire, C. W. W. Kannangara, D. S. Senanayake, Dominion, Don Baron Jayatilaka, E. W. Perera, Edwin Wijeyeratne, Fredrick Richard Senanayake, George E. de Silva, H. W. Amarasuriya, James Peiris, Patrick de Silva Kularatne, Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan independence movement, The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), United National Party, W. A. de Silva.

British Ceylon

Ceylon (Sinhala: බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ලංකාව, Brithānya Laṃkāva; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, Birithaniya Ilangai) was a British Crown colony between 1815 and 1948.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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C. W. W. Kannangara

Christopher William Wijekoon Kannangara (Sinhalav g mtg fකන්නන්ගර; 13 October 1884 – 23 September 1969) was a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.

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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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Dominion

Dominions were semi-independent polities under the British Crown, constituting the British Empire, beginning with Canadian Confederation in 1867.

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Don Baron Jayatilaka

Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka (Sinhala:ශ්‍රීමත් දොන් බාරොන් ජයතිලක; 13 February 1868 – 29 May 1944) known as D.B. Jayatilaka was a Sri Lankan educationalist, statesmen and diplomat.

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E. W. Perera

Edward Walter Perera (11 December 1875 – 15 February 1953) was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) barrister, politician and freedom fighter.

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Edwin Wijeyeratne

Sir Edwin Aloysius Perera Wijeyeratne, KBE (Sinhala: ශ්‍රිමත් එඩ්වින් ඇලෝසියස් පෙරේරා විජයරත්න) (8 January 1889 – 19 October 1968) (known as Edwin Wijeyeratne) was a Sri Lankan politician, diplomat, and one of the founding members of United National Party.

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Fredrick Richard Senanayake

Fredrick Richard Senanayake (known to as F. R. Senanayake) (October 20, 1882 – January 1, 1926) was a Ceylonesen lawyer and independence activist.

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George E. de Silva

George Edmund de Silva (1879 - 1950) was a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.

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H. W. Amarasuriya

Henry Woodward Amarasuriya (14 October 1904 – 6 March 1981) was a Ceylonese politician, educationist, landed proprietor and philanthropist.

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James Peiris

Sir James Peiris (1856 – 1930) was a prominent leader in the Sri Lankan independence movement, the first elected Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon and the first native Governor of Ceylon (Acting).

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Patrick de Silva Kularatne

Panis (Patrick) de Silva Kularatne (31 March 1893 – 16 November 1976) (known as P de S Kularatne) was an educationist and politician of Sri Lanka.

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Ponnambalam Arunachalam

Ponnambalam Arunachalam (translit; 14 September 1853 – 9 January 1924) was a Ceylon Tamil civil servant and a member of the Executive Council of Ceylon and Legislative Council of Ceylon.

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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 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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The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

The Sunday Times is a weekly Sri Lankan broadsheet initially published by the now defunct Times Group, until 1991, when it was taken over by Wijeya Newspapers.

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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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W. A. de Silva

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon_National_Congress

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