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Reference FCO 37/1886
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Sri Lanka: general elections, 21 July 1977
Date 1977
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1972-1980
Region South Asia
Countries Sri Lanka
Places Beijing; Ceylon; Chennai (Madras); China; Colombo; Delhi; Goa; India; Islamabad; Jaffna; Kandy; London; Pakistan; Vietnam
People Abdul Majeed Didi; Bandaranaike, Sirimavo; Bandaranaike, Solomon; Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali; Carter, James (Jimmy); Dahanayake, Wijeyananda; Desai, Morarji; Gandhi, Indira; Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma); Jayewardene, Junius Richard; Kotelawala, John; Rance, Sir Hubert; Shastri, Lal
Topics agriculture; air force; aircraft; army; assassination; banking; battle; bonds; business; capitalism; caste; cemeteries, monuments and statues; Christianity; commodities; communalism; communications; communism; conquest; Constituent Assembly; currency; democracy; disease; education; elections; electricity; exports; food; foreign policy; Hinduism; independence; Indian National Congress; industrial development; invasion; investment; Islam; judicial system; labour; land reform; landlords; language; loans; massacre; migration; military; nationalism; navy; nonalignment; oil; parliament; peasantry; political parties; propaganda; railway; repatriation; revolution; riots and disturbances; roads; Royal Air Force; satyagraha (non-violent resistance); Scheduled Castes (Untouchables); separatism; slavery; socialism; state of emergency; steel; tourism; trade; trade unions; transport; United Nations; uprising; war; weapons; women
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