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Ceylon [1] [3] was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1948 to 1972, that shared a monarch with other dominions of the Commonwealth. In 1948, the British Colony of Ceylon was granted independence as Ceylon. In 1972, the country became a republic within the Commonwealth, and its name was changed to Sri Lanka.
After independence in 1948, the name Ceylon was still used until 1972. Lanka appears later and in parallel, between the 10th [34] and the 12th centuries CE. [3] The name Lanka, a Sanskrit word, comes from the Hindu text the Ramayana, where Lanka is the abode of King Ravana. The Ramayana Lanka began to be considered as the present-day Sri Lanka ...
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon, [b] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean , southwest of the Bay of Bengal , separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait .
Sri Lankan nationality law details the conditions in which a person is a national of Sri Lanka. The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Ceylon Citizenship Act, which came into force on 15 November 1948. Any person born in Sri Lanka to a Sri Lankan parent is automatically a citizen by descent.
When the Ceylon became a republic in 1972, the prefix "Royal" was dropped as the country renamed the three services as: Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy, and the Sri Lanka Air Force. [88] [89] Ceylon's naval vessels bore the prefix HMCyS, i.e., His/Her Majesty's Ceylon Ship.
The British Ceylon period is the history of Sri Lanka between 1815 and 1948. It follows the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom into the hands of the British Empire. [ 6 ] It ended over 2300 years of Sinhalese monarchy rule on the island. [ 7 ]
The Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 was a constitution of Sri Lanka, replaced by the 1978 constitution currently in force. It was Sri Lanka's first republican constitution, and its second since independence in 1948. The constitution changed the country's name from Ceylon to Sri Lanka, and established it as an independent republic.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Sirimavo Bandaranaike II: 7th [11] 1970: 7 years, 1 month and 24 days: Sirimavo Bandaranaike declared the country a republic, and changed the name of the country from Ceylon to Sri Lanka. [17] Nationalized many companies in the plantation sector and imposed restrictions on several imports.