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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 ]
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
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
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 ...
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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 ...
The first Western Europeans to make substantial contact with Sri Lanka were the Portuguese, followed by the Dutch and then finally the British. Sri Lankans have since been migrating to Britain for several centuries, up from the time of British ruled Ceylon. [7] Flag of British Ceylon. Many Sri Lankans have been migrating to Britain for several ...
Independence was granted under the Ceylon Independence Act 1947. Military treaties with the United Kingdom preserved intact British air and sea bases in the country; British officers also continued to fill most of the upper ranks of the Ceylon Army. Don Stephen Senanayake became the first prime minister of Ceylon. Later in 1948, when Ceylon ...