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	Sirimavo Bandaranaike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (April 17, 1916 - October 10, 2000) was a politician from Sri Lanka.
		She was the wife of a previous Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Solomon Bandaranaike and the mother of Sri Lanka's current President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, under whom she served her third term as Prime Minister.
		Bandaranaike became more and more intolerant of criticism and forced the shutdown of the Independent newspaper group, whose publications were her fiercest critics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike (819 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the then leader of the Opposition, when the appointment of the Special Presidential Commission was mooted, welcomed it on the ground that it genuiningly helped to inform the public of certain facts and circumstances that were unknown to them at the time of their occurrence.
		Bandaranaike went before the Court of Appeal and requested the grant of a Writ of Prohibition against the Commission upholding the contention that the Warrant was invalid as the law was not retrospective in its operation and did not authorise an inquiry in respect of a period prior to the law.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike to co-operate with them to "bring about her own political destruction." Both the President and the Prime Minister made public statements to this effect and they were trying to mobilise support for this massive assault on the formidable political personality of Mrs.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/10/10/fea26.html (1562 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Ceylon elects world's first woman PM
		Bandaranaike's final act was to vote in a parliamentary election she hoped would return the family's party to power leading a governing coalition known as the People's Alliance.
		Bandaranaike rose to power in 1960 as a bereaved wife and mother of three, just a year after her husband, Solomon, then prime minister, was assassinated by a Buddhist monk.
		Bandaranaike was born Sirimavo Ratwatte on April 17, 1916, into one of the island nation's wealthy feudal families, one that was at the pinnacle of Sri Lanka's social hierarchy.
	www.lankalibrary.com /pol/sirimavo.htm (1087 words)

	Sirimavo -- from shy housewife to world's first woman-PM
		Bandaranaike is remembered well for both her statesmanship and socialist policies during the cold war years that, some say, prompted Sri Lanka's economic regression.
		Bandaranaike made a strong return to politics in 1985 and contested the 1988 presidential elections, which she lost to Ranasinghe Premadasa, who was assassinated, five years later.
		Bandaranaike was said to favour her daughter, leading Anura to quit his mother's party and join the main opposition, United National Party (UNP).
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000811/iin11010.html (709 words)

	LankaWeb News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sirimavo R.D.Bandaranaike, reverently called by all Sri Lankans as “Methini” is one such personality for whom Sri Lanka and its people were more precious than her own self.
		Bandaranaike they could reverse the progressive measures he introduced for political and economical liberation of the rural Sri Lankan population and they can once again steer Sri Lanka in the pro-western conservative path.
		Bandaranaike was entrusted with the reign of her late husband’s Party but her remarkable achievements within a short span of time proved the fallacy of their myopic conjectures.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items04/081004-2.html (1533 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Sirimavo Bandaranaike: First woman premier
		Born Sirimavo Ratwatte, on 17 April 1916, she was the eldest daughter among six children and came from a wealthy, aristocratic land-owning family.
		Mrs Bandaranaike took over the presidency of his party and was dubbed "the weeping widow" for frequently bursting into tears as she pledged herself to continue her husband's vaguely socialist policies.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike suffered a heart attack while driving home after casting her vote in the general elections.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/964914.stm (618 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sirimavo Bandaranaike (South Asian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		She and her husband, S. Bandaranaike, converted to Buddhism from Christianity before he became prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956.
		After his assassination (1959), she became the first woman in the world to serve as a nation's prime minister.
		In 1994 her daughter, Chandrika Kumaratunga, was elected president, and appointed Bandaranaike prime minister, a post she held until she resigned because of ill health in 2000.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BandaranSir.html (290 words)

	rediff.com: Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga to revamp cabinet
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka's octogenarian prime minister, on Thursday demitted office ahead of a proposed cabinet reshuffle by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first woman prime minister in the world when she was elected to office in 1960 following the assassination of her husband and prime minister S W R D Bandaranaike.
		Although Bandaranaike has been virtually confined to the wheelchair for the past four years due to serious illnesses, she continued as prime minister as Chandrika needed her support to run the party, sources said.
	www.rediff.com /news/2000/aug/10lanka.htm (397 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On Monday morning the 46th death anniversary of Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike was held to commemorate the founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the fifth death anniversary of Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike at the Bandaranaike Mausoleum in Horagolla, 39 kilometers from Colombo.
		Bandaranaike was an eloquent orator both in Sinhala and English and was often referred to as the silver tongued little man from Asia.
		Bandaranaike was the world’s first woman Prime Minister when she was elected to that office in 1960 and served for five years.
	news.onlanka.com /article_2005_09_27_5842.html (479 words)

	Celebrity Deathwatch: Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister, 84
		Bandaranaike had gone to Gampaha, her home town, 22 miles east of Colombo to cast her vote.
		Born Sirimavo Ratwatte on April 17, 1916, Bandaranaike was a member of one of this Indian Ocean island's wealthiest families.
		In 1940 she married Soloman Dias Bandaranaike, a senior politician in the United National Party that was governing Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00103.html (652 words)

	Bandaranaike, Sirimavo -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Bandaranaike, Sirimavo R.D. stateswoman who, upon her party's victory in the 1960 Ceylon general election, became the world's first woman prime minister.
		Bandaranaike, S.W.R.D. statesman and prime minister of Ceylon (1956–59), whose election marked a significant change in the political history of modern Ceylon.
		Elected president was Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the incumbent prime minister and the...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273088?tocId=9273088 (534 words)

	CNN.com - Ailing Sri Lankan prime minister resigns - August 10, 2000
		COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman to head a national government in modern history, resigned Thursday at the age of 84 to allow her daughter, the president, to reorganize the Cabinet ahead of elections.
		Born Sirimavo Ratwatte on April 17, 1916 into one of the Indian Ocean island's wealthiest families, she was educated in a Catholic convent and never intended to become a politician.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who had stayed out of the limelight, found the mantel of party leadership thrust upon her.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/south/08/10/srilanka.resignation.ap (800 words)

	Asia Times: SRI LANKA: The Untold Story
		After the assassination of Bandaranaike in 1959, Srimavo Bandaranaike took over the presidency of his party and was dubbed "the weeping widow" for frequently bursting into tears, as she pledged to continue her husband's vague socialist and Sinhala Buddhist chauvinistic policies.
		Felix Dias Bandaranaike (29 years old) the nephew and one of the Bandaranaike's clan, was the Minister of Finance, and was the youngest minister, and upon whom Srimavo leaned heavily.
		Thondaman and Bandaranaike were struck by the discipline and determination of the Tamil volunteers, who sat peacefully in front of the government offices and expressed their resistance.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/CL08Df04.html (8185 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Politics
		Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse said that when the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Balika Vidyalaya was opened in 1973, the late Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike declined to name the school after her, but, it was so done on the insistence of the then Education Minister the late Dr. Badi-ud-din Mahmud.
		Among the many memorable achievements of late Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Nationalization of foreign estates, declaration of Sri Lanka as a Republic, annexation of Kachchativu island and extension of the territorial waters of Sri Lanka up to 200 nautical miles were conspicuous, he said.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike Balika Vidyalaya Principal Pushpa Kalubowila sought the Premier's support to get more building facilities to the College in proportion to the increase of the student population.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/07/22/pol02.html (302 words)

	The Hindu : World's first woman PM bows out
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman Prime Minister, who once dreamed of turning Sri Lanka into a socialist state, today announced her retirement from politics after a record four decades in public life.
		Bandaranaike resigned on Wednesday night for reasons of health from her third tenure in the office of the Prime Minister.
		Bandaranaike said she would continue to be ``a source of encouragement to you, the party and the Government from behind the scenes''.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/08/11/stories/03110002.htm (739 words)

	Sirimavo Bandaranaike Biography / Biography of Sirimavo Bandaranaike Biography Biography
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916-2000) became the first woman prime minister in the world when she was chosen to head the Sri Lankan Freedom Party government in 1960, following the assassination of her husband.
		Sirimavo (also Sirima) Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike was born on April 17, 1916, to an aristocratic Kandyan family and was educated in a Roman Catholic convent in Colombo.
		In 1959, however, SWRD Bandaranaike was assassinated by a Buddhist monk, and such was SWRD's charisma that his party, the Sri Lankan Freedom Party (SLFP), chose Sirimavo Bandaranaike.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography-sirimavo-bandaranaike (215 words)

	Untitled Document
		Bandaranaike and her close advisors could foresee that public dissatisfaction with unkept promises and economic failures would produce a UNP victory, perhaps a UNP landslide, in the 1977 general election.
		This is an important question because Sirimavo Bandaranaike's government used the claim that Sinhalese were systematically disadvantaged to justify policies that gave them preferential treatment in employment and education.
		Reviewing plans devised by Sirimavo Bandaranaike's Ministries of Education and Plan Implementation, one cannot fail to be impressed by the awareness of issues facing Sri Lankan higher education and the seeming promise proposed reforms.
	www.american.edu /jrich/Richardson.pol.econ.html (11985 words)

	Sri Lanka United National Party Interlude - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
		Bandaranaike moved vigorously early in her administration to nationalize significant sectors of the economy, targeting industries that were under foreign control.
		Most alarming to Bandaranaike's conservative opponents, however, were her repeated unsuccessful attempts to nationalize the largest newspaper syndicate and establish a press council to monitor the news media.
		In foreign relations, Bandaranaike was faithful to her late husband's policy of "dynamic neutralism," which aimed to steer a nonaligned diplomatic stance between the superpowers.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/sri_lanka/sri_lanka_history_united_national_party_interlude.html (770 words)

	Britannica.com : World's Apart : Indonesia : Timeline
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the widow of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, reorganizes the SLFP and becomes the world's first woman prime minister.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike returns to the prime minister's post, leading the SLFP and a coalition of Marxist parties to a landslide victory.
		Bandaranaike calls for more state control of the economy; her government restricts private enterprise, continues nationalization of industry, and enacts land reform.
	www.britanica.com /worldsapart/5_timeline_print.html (1519 words)

	President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was born to one of Sri Lanka’s most distinguished families on 29th June 1945.
		Her father, SWRD Bandaranaike, was a senior Minister of the Government at the time of her birth.
		He was later to become the Prime Minister of the country, while her mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was to become the world’s first woman Prime Minister in 1961.
	www.priu.gov.lk /execpres/cbk.html (730 words)

	Untitled Document
		Bandaranaike the option of governing alone, although she chose to keep pre-election pledges to her "United Front" coalition partners, the Trotskyite Ceylon Equal Society (Lanka Sama Samaja) Party and the Communist Party (Moscow wing).
		Bandaranaike hoped to avoid the labor unrest that had plagued her previous administration.
		While Sirimavo Bandaranaike's government was preoccupied with maintaining Sinhalese support and with foreign policy, militant groups began to reshape the Tamil community's political agenda.
	www.american.edu /jrich/Richardson.militancy.html (13733 words)

	Tamil Canadian Services: Tamil Eelam
		PM Bandaranaike courted the support of narrow-minded Buddhist monks with a passion and inspired them to demand the creation of a Sinhala Buddhist nation, with no concern for or desire to appease anyone but themselves.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike, a previously untutored politician, upon the death of her husband was soon made the stooge of ambitious Sinhala kingmakers determined to capitalize on this Sinhala Buddhist phenomenon.
		Sirimavo's next step was to pass a Constitution which illegally and unconstitutionally abolished the guarantees of equality and prohibitions against discriminatory legislation contained in Section 29 of the Soulbury Constitution.
	www.tamilcanadian.com /pageview.php?ID=2710&SID=133 (842 words)

	South_Asian_Women_Leaders_2
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Khalida Zia - were housewives at the time of their personal tragedies, and did not have children old enough to be seated in their father’s office.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike came from an influential family of Sri Lanka, studied at St. Bridget’s Convent in Colombo, married Solomon Bandaranaike, raised a family, and her life was devoted to her role as a mother and a wife.
		She appointed her mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, to serve as Prime Minister in her new government.
	www.the-south-asian.com /Nov2004/South_Asian_Women_Leaders_2.htm (995 words)

	Exit of an emaciated turkey - Sachi Sri Kantha
		When Sirimavo made her debut in politics as the sobbing widow of an assassinated prime minister, copy writers and toadies from the journalistic profession projected her as the first 'peacock' in a stage dominated by majestic mammals.
		Sycophantic Sri Lankan hacks unabashedly paraded Sirimavo as the first 'peacock' in the global stage of politics and waxed about the 'wonderful prominence' she had brought to the island.
		The second contributory factor was Sirimavo's lack of gravitas in her resume as a politician.
	www.tamilnation.org /forum/sachisrikantha/turkey.htm (919 words)

	Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1940, she married S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, who was prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
		In 1960, SLFP won the election, and Sirimavo became prime minister.
		In August 1994, her daughter, Chandrika, won the election and appointed Sirimavo prime minister once again, and they governed against Tamil separists.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/bandaranaike.html (258 words)

	Sri Lanka - Sinhalese Parties
		They claimed that the original SLFP, under the leadership of Sirimavo Bandaranaike's son, Anura, was excessively right wing and had become an instrument of the Jayewardene government.
		Although Sirimavo Bandaranaike reentered politics and assumed a leadership position within the SLFP after her 1986 pardon, Anura Bandaranaike remained leader of the parliamentary opposition.
		In 1986 Sirimavo Bandaranaike and politically active members of the Buddhist leadership established the Movement for Defense of the Nation in order to campaign against proposed grants of regional autonomy to the Tamils.
	countrystudies.us /sri-lanka/68.htm (1152 words)

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