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  1. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

    S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

    4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon from 1956-59

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  1. Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike [alt 1] (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ), serving from 1956 until his assassination.

  2. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike was a statesman and prime minister of Ceylon (195659), whose election marked a significant change in the political history of modern Ceylon. Educated at the University of Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1925.

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  4. The Bandaranaike family is a Sinhalese family prominent in Sri Lankan politics. The family includes three prime ministers and one President of Sri Lanka . Horagolla Walauwa, Atthanagalla—family seat of the Bandaranaike family. History.

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    • Neela Perumal (Kalu Kapuge – the black priest) Horagolla Walauwa
  5. Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia", was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon, serving from 1956 until his assassination.

  6. HARSHANA RAMBUKWELLA. Visions of a grand hydraulic civilization and a pastoral ideal of paddy cultivation-based village life have shaped Sinhala nationalist discourse since the late nineteenth century.

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