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• History (Ceylon before independence)

  In 1939, labour protests forced Britain to recall Ceylon’s colonial Home Minister

  19 January 2020, by MUDALIGE Samarasena

  Protests after police shot a labour protester in 1939 contributed to the coalescence of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) as a party representing labourers and middle-class anticolonial activists.
  The national leaders of Sri Lanka made several attempts to take the ruling power of Sri Lanka (…)

• History (Ceylon before independence)

  The Bracegirdle embarrassment in colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

  27 June 2018, by Daily News (Sri Lanka)

  “Friends, you have dark skins, but white hearts- while my people here have white skins but their hearts are packed with black treason of such a nature that even an infected rat would despise to dwell in their ‘hearts’”
  —Bracegirdle addressing a group of estate workers
  Mark Anthony Lyster (…)

• History (Ceylon before independence)

  The impact of the Russian Revolution in Ceylon

  5 November 2017, by JAYAWARDENA Kumari

  It was not until eighteen years after the October Revolution of 1917 that the first Marxist- led political party appeared on the Ceylon scene. This was in striking contrast to other Asian countries, where soon after the revolution small groups of Marxists began to organize.
  The new Soviet (…)

• History (Ceylon before independence)

  Nationalism in Lanka

  1983, by KARUNARATNE Vickramabahu (“Bahu”)

  This the latter part of the book on the national question published in 1983 by Dr Vickramabahu
  1. Between 6^th and 3^rd century B. C
  At the time of the supposed arrival of Aryan people from North India to this island between 6^th and 3^rd century B. C., those who lived here belong to the South (…)