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    பண்டாரநாயக்கே; 17 April 1916 – 10 October 2000), commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan politician. She was the world's first female prime...
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    Horagolla Bandaranaike Samadhi is the final resting place of Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike and his wife Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike. It is...
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  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya is a public girls' schools in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is a National public school controlled by the central government...
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    turned to Bandaranaike's widow Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who consequently became the world's first elected female head of government in 1960. Sirimavo Bandaranaike...
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    being imported from China. In 1998 a small Exhibition Centre, the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre, was built on the grounds as a gift from...
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    the Indo-Ceylon Agreement and Bandaranaike-Shastri Pact) was an agreement that was signed between Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka...
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    or Srimavo-Gandhi Pact was an agreement that was signed between Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, and Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister...
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    out with his mother and was suspended from the family party by Sirimavo Bandaranaike. The rift was aggravated by the return to the party of his sister...
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  • The Second Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet was the central government of Ceylon led by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike between 1970 and 1977. It was...
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    during the tenure of three different governments, two headed by Sirimavo Bandaranaike of the SLFP and one headed by Dudley Senanayake of the UNP. William...
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    Retrieved 3 August 2023. Skard, Torild "Sirimavo Bandaranaike" and "Chandrika Kumaratunga", 2014 "S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike | Ceylon leader, independence, reformer...
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    led to his widow Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike) becoming the world's first female prime minister. Bandaranaike became prime minister...
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    Jayawardanapura Kotte. He had likely SLFP presidential nominee Sirimavo Bandaranaike stripped of her civic rights and barred from running for office...
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    a successful entrepreneur. He also played key role in defeating Sirimavo Bandaranaike that brought United National Party's Dudley Senanayake to power...
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    former Prime Ministers S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and Sirimavo Bandaranaike and sister of former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and former Speaker...
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    leaders. Bandaranaike was assassinated by an extremist Buddhist monk in 1959. Leaders in 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the widow of Bandaranaike, took office...
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    The first woman to be elected as prime minister of a country was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), when she led her party to victory...
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    The First Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet was the central government of Ceylon led by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike between 1960 and 1965. It was...
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    November 1967. The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) party leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike offered his father's post of SLFP party organiser for the Beliatta...
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  • R. D. Bandaranaike (1899–1959), Ceylonese politician Shirani Bandaranayake (born 1958), Sri Lankan academic and judge Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916–2000)...
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    1970 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, the United Front led by Sirimavo Bandaranaike came to power. This new Sri Lankan government adopted two new policies...
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    There was an attempted coup in 1962 against the government under Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Evidence of human colonization in Sri Lanka appears at the site...
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    Socialist ideology shaped the principal economic and social policies of Sirimavo Bandaranaike and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party during the 1970s. Several sectors...
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  • senior minister in the Sri Lankan government. She was educated at Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya, C.M.S. Ladies' College, Colombo, and the British School...
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  • to 1965, serving as the de facto Chief Adviser to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and as Ceylon's High Commissioner to India from 1970 to 1972. A...
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    where he was a classmate and friend of Anura Bandaranaike, son of then Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike; and Dinesh Gunawardena, son of socialist...
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  • administration reforms carried out by Minister Felix Dias Bandaranaike in the Sirimavo Bandaranaike government, which replaced the post of village headman...
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    back to 1971, when the left-wing Sri Lanka Freedom Party led by Sirimavo Bandaranaike promised to close down the Israel embassy in Sri Lanka in support...
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    with Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first female Head of State, and proceeded to attend multiple delegations with her. Vivienne and Sirimavo attended...
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    at the Wayback Machine. Time. 1959-12-14. Retrieved 2008-10-11. "Sirimavo Bandaranaike: First woman premier" Archived 6 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine...
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