Nearly all responsible Ceylonese devoutly hoped that the United National Party of jowly Dudley Shelton Senanayake, 47, would win a decisive victory in the March election. After 3½ years of indecision, ...
During the early 1900s, the British were interested in bringing workers from South India to provide cheap labour for the tea and rubber plantations in Ceylon. However, cholera, smallpox and typhoid ...
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Mrs. Solomon West Ridgeway Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is an exasperating handful for any diplomat, even Red China’s peripatetic Premier Chou Enlai. As Chou’s road show pulled into Colombo ...
The Sunday Times: Ceylon Sanitary Corps : Fighting an unseen battle for the Empire
The Great War, as it was known then, lasted from 1914 to 1918 when Ceylon was a British colony. As already recounted in these columns, there was a surge of patriotism to the Empire among Ceylon’s ...
As a British crown colony, the island was known as Ceylon; it achieved independence as the Dominion of Ceylon in 1948. The country is now known in Sinhala as Śrī Laṅkā (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා) and in Tamil as Ilaṅkai (Tamil: இலங்கை, IPA: [iˈlaŋɡaɪ]).