Swrd bandaranaike biography

Solomon Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, the fourth prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), spent six years in England. He studied between 1919 and 1925 at Christ Church College, Oxford. During his time there, he lived with a working class family as a shortage of rooms in the College had forced Christ Church to find lodgings elsewhere. Bandaranaike was träffad by the hierarchical structure and social conventions that excluded him from the student fraternity.

During his first year at Oxford, his father moved to London for a year together with his sister who was presented as a debutante at Buckingham Palace in 1920. Bandaranaike tried hard to passform in and found it difficult to deal with his fellow students’ rejection, especially considering his own family’s preoccupation with ställning eller tillstånd and power. In 1920 he was allotted a room in Christ Church College, sharing a corridor with Anthony Eden. After passing his classics exams with a second class degree, h

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S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956 to 1959

Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike^{[alt 1]} (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), serving from 1956 until his assassination. The founder of the left-wing and Sinhalese nationalistSri Lanka Freedom Party, his tenure saw the country's first left-wing reforms.

Born to a wealthy, political family, he studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Returning to Ceylon, he entered local politics by joining the Ceylon National Congress. Having been elected to the Colombo Municipal Council in 1926, he was elected from his family seat in Veyangoda to the State Council of Ceylon for two terms between 1931 and 1947, while serving in th

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His Life

Biography

S W R D Bandaranaike was the fourth Prime Minister of Sri Lanka serving from April 1956, when his party, the Sri Lanka, Freedom Party, won a landslide victory at the general election, until his death at the hands of an assassin in September 1959. He came from a land owning family that had strong links with the British administration, his father Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike being a high ranking local official in colonial times to the British Governor. A charismatic leader and a brilliant orator, he soon made a mark in politics as a strong opponent of the colonial administration and a committed advocate of 'self rule’, indigenous culture and language. His vigorous defense of local causes led to his tenure as Prime Minister being called 'the age of the common man'.

SWRD Bandaranaike’s impact on the political, economic and social development of Sri Lanka was of such a profound kind that what he left behind is not only yet remembered and revered, but continues t