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Reference FCO 37/344
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Ceylon's intention to become a republic
Date 1969
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1965-1971
Region South Asia
Countries Sri Lanka, United Kingdom
Places Burma (Myanmar); Ceylon; Chennai (Madras); Colombo; India; Jaffna; London; Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces)
People Bandaranaike, Sirimavo; Bandaranaike, Solomon; Dahanayake, Wijeyananda; Goonetilleke, Sir Oliver; Kotelawala, John; Senanayake, Don
Topics army; assassination; banking; business; capitalism; caste; Catholicism; cemeteries, monuments and statues; Christianity; communalism; communications; communism; coup d'état; democracy; Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam [Dravidian nationalist party]; education; elections; governor-general; independence; Indian National Congress; Islam; judicial system; language; military; nationalism; oil; parliament; peasantry; princely states; propaganda; repatriation; riots and disturbances; satyagraha (non-violent resistance); separatism; socialism; state of emergency; trade; war
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