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Reference FCO 37/573
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Ceylon: General election, 27 May 1970 when Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected Prime Minister (Folder 2)
Date 1970
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1965-1971
Region South Asia
Countries Sri Lanka
Places Beijing; Burma (Myanmar); Ceylon; China; Colombo; Delhi; France; India; Jaffna; Kandy; London; Madhya Pradesh; Maldives; Paris; Thailand; Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces); Vietnam; Washington, DC
People Abdul Majeed Didi; Bandaranaike, Sirimavo; Bandaranaike, Solomon; Dahanayake, Wijeyananda; Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 14th Earl of Home; Eden, Sir Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon; Gandhi, Indira; Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma); Gopallawa, William; Jayewardene, Junius Richard; Kotelawala, John; MacDonald, Malcolm; Mao Zedong; Narayan, Jayaprakash; Nehru, Jawaharlal ('Panditji'); Nixon, Richard; Prasad, Rajendra; Rance, Sir Hubert; Shastri, Lal; Stewart, (Robert) Michael, Baron Stewart of Fulham; Wilson, Harold, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx; Zhou Enlai
Topics agriculture; air force; anti-communism; army; banking; battle; British Government; business; capitalism; caste; Catholicism; Christianity; church; commodities; communications; communism; Constituent Assembly; coup d'état; currency; democracy; economic aid; education; elections; electricity; exports; food; foreign policy; governor-general; Green Revolution; Hinduism; independence; Indian National Congress; industrial development; Islam; judicial system; labour; landlords; language; loans; migration; military; mining; Naga; nationalism; NATO; navy; nonalignment; oil; parliament; partition; peasantry; political parties; propaganda; railway; revolt; revolution; riots and disturbances; roads; satyagraha (non-violent resistance); socialism; steel; Suez Canal; tourism; trade; trade unions; transport; United Nations; war; weapons; women
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