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Reference FCO 37/572
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Ceylon: General election, 27 May 1970 when Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected Prime Minister (Folder 1)
Date 1970
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1965-1971
Region South Asia
Countries Sri Lanka
Places Beijing; Bengal; Ceylon; Chennai (Madras); China; Colombo; Delhi; Gan; India; Jaffna; Kandy; Kerala; London; Paris; Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces); Vietnam; Washington, DC; West Bengal
People Abdul Majeed Didi; Bandaranaike, Sirimavo; Bandaranaike, Solomon; Dahanayake, Wijeyananda; Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 14th Earl of Home; Gopallawa, William; Jayewardene, Junius Richard; Kotelawala, John; Macmillan, Harold, 1st Earl of Stockton; Shastri, Lal
Topics agriculture; army; banking; battle; British Government; business; capitalism; caste; Catholicism; commodities; communalism; communications; communism; Constituent Assembly; consular representation; coup d'état; currency; democracy; diplomacy; disease; Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam [Dravidian nationalist party]; education; elections; electricity; exports; food; foreign policy; governor-general; Green Revolution; Hinduism; independence; Indian Civil Service; Indian National Congress; industrial development; investment; Islam; judicial system; labour; landlords; language; loans; migration; military; Naga; nationalism; navy; nonalignment; oil; parliament; peasantry; political parties; propaganda; Raj; Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh; repatriation; revolution; riots and disturbances; roads; Royal Air Force; slavery; socialism; steel; Suez Canal; tourism; trade; trade unions; transport; United Nations; uprising; war; women
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