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"1947 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. "Table 31 Parliament Election (1947)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Rajasingham, K. T. (20 October 2001). "Chapter 11: On the threshold of freedom". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Asia Times.
A total of 183 electoral districts existed from 1947 to 1989 in Sri Lanka. The country's 1978 Constitution introduced a new proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament from 1989 onwards.
The 1st Parliament of Ceylon was a meeting of the Parliament of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1947 parliamentary election between 23 August and 20 September 1947. The parliament met for the first time on 14 October 1947 and was dissolved on 8 April 1952.
In 2023, the Archive started to observe June 3 as the Partition Remembrance Day because it was on this day in 1947 that the viceroy declared the Mountbatten Plan to divide India. [3] It also announced to launch a book with 4000 oral testimonies and 1000 photographs illustrating the voices of the partition survivors spread across various ...
The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India [b] into two independent dominion states, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. [3] The Union of India is today the Republic of India and Dominion of Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
The defenses of Sri Lanka were beefed up to three British army divisions because the island was strategically important, holding almost all the British Empire's resources of rubber. Rationing was instituted so that Sri Lankans were comparatively better fed than their Indian neighbours, in order to prevent disaffection among the natives.
(1947–1952) D. S. Senanayake: United National Party: 2 Dudley Senanayake cabinet I: 22 March 1952: 12 October 1953: Elizabeth II (1952–1972) Dudley Senanayake: 3 Kotelawala cabinet: 12 October 1953: 12 April 1956: John Kotelawala: 4 S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike cabinet: 12 April 1956: 26 September 1959: S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike: Sri Lanka ...
Topographic map of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, an island in South Asia shaped as a teardrop or a pear/mango, [168] lies on the Indian Plate, a major tectonic plate that was formerly part of the Indo-Australian Plate. [169] It is in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal, between latitudes 5° and 10° N, and longitudes 79° and 82° E. [170]