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The British Ceylon period is the history of Sri Lanka between 1815 and 1948. It follows the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom into the hands of the British Empire. [ 6 ] It ended over 2300 years of Sinhalese monarchy rule on the island. [ 7 ]
A defaced national flag of Sri Lanka with Coat of arms of Sri Lanka. 1972 – Flag of the Sri Lanka Army: The army flag defaced with the insignia of the Sri Lanka Army. 1972 – Naval Ensign of Sri Lanka: A defaced white ensign with the flag of Sri Lanka in the canton influenced by the British design. 2010 – Air Force Ensign of Sri Lanka
Edward Barnes (British Army officer) Executive council (Commonwealth countries) Flag of Sri Lanka; Flags of Asia; Florence Senanayake; G. G. Ponnambalam; Gratien Fernando; Herbert Stanley; Hudson Lowe; Hugh Clifford (colonial administrator) I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle; Indian Ocean in World War II; Indian Ocean raid; J. R. Jayewardene; James Peiris
List of Sri Lankan flags; List of Sri Lankan politicians; List of flags by color combination; List of sovereign states in the 1950s; M. D. Banda; M. S. Kariapper; Maithripala Senanayake; Montague Jayawickrama; N. H. Keerthiratne; N. M. Perera; New Zealand at the 1950 British Empire Games; P. B. Bulankulame; Pakistan at the 1948 Summer Olympics ...
Sri Lanka was a front-line British base against the Japanese during World War II. Sri Lankan opposition to the war was led by the Marxist organizations, and the leaders of the LSSP pro-independence group were arrested by the Colonial authorities.
The credibility & prestige of the British was further damaged by the sinking of the aircraft carrier Hermes and the cruisers Cornwall and Dorsetshire off Sri Lanka in early April 1942; accompanied at the same time by the virtually unopposed bombing of mainly the British colonial bases in the island and bombardment of Madras (Chennai). Such was ...
A Marxist People's Liberation Front rebellion was put down with the help of British, Soviet, and Indian aid in 1972. That same year, the country officially became a republic within the Commonwealth and was renamed Sri Lanka, with William Gopallawa serving as its first president. [10]
Britain is in the far west (bottom) while Sri Lanka is in the far east (top). c. 1040 – The Anglo-Saxon Cotton World Map shows westward as far as the British Isles and eastward as far as India and Taprobanen (the Anglo-Saxon name for Sri Lanka). At this time, Sri Lanka is the most distant land known to the Anglo-Saxons. [13]