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	Solomon Bandaranaike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (1899 – September 26, 1959) was Prime Minister (1956–59) of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka).
		He was the husband of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and father of Chandrika Kumaratunga, the current President of Sri Lanka and Anura Bandaranaike, current Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka.
		A lawyer educated in England, he entered politics as a member of the United National Party and rose to hold a cabinet position.As a young lawyer he became active in the United National Party (UNP) and from 1931 to 1951 served the party in legislative and ministerial posts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomon_Bandaranaike (376 words)

	Sirimavo Bandaranaike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		As a result, Bandaranaike moved her country closer to China and the Soviet Union and championed a policy of nonalignment.
		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 (843 words)

	Solomon Bandaranaike - Wikipedia
		Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (8 Januari 1899–26 September 1959) adalah seorang politikus Sri Lanka yang merupakan Perdana Menteri Sri Lanka dari 12 April 1956 hingga meninggal dunia pada 26 September 1959.
		Ia digantikan oleh istrinya Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike.
		Putrinya, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga adalah Presiden Sri Lanka sejak tahun 1994.
	id.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomon_Bandaranaike (158 words)

	Asia Times: Chapter 17: Assassination of Bandaranaike
		Bandaranaike, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias (1899-1959), the prime minister of Ceylon (1956-59), whose election marked a significant change socially and ethnically in the political history of modern Ceylon, was born on January 8.
		Bandaranaike was supported by the Buddhist clergies in the election campaign, who raised the slogan of discrimination against the Sinhalese through 400 years of Christian rule and eight years of pro-Western UNP rule.
		Srimavo Bandaranaike, the widow of the slain leader of the SLFP, was sworn in as the Prime Minister.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/Cl01Df05.html (9468 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Solomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Solomon, king of ancient Israel (reigned 961-922 bc), second son of David, king of Judah and Israel, and Bathsheba (see 2 Samuel 12:24).
		Solomon Islands (country), constitutional monarchy and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of about 30 islands and numerous atolls in...
		Schechter, Solomon (1847-1915), Romanian-American Jewish scholar and founder of Conservative Judaism, born in Focşani, Romania, and educated in...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Solomon&pg=1&grp=art (256 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sirimavo Bandaranaike
		On her husbands assination, Bandaranaike took over the leadership of his Sri Lanka Freedom Party, which he formed and led to election victory in 1956 and kept it for 40 years until her death.
		She ruled her country on and off throughout the 1960s and 1970s until she was crushingly defeated in a general election in 1977.
		As a result Bandaranaike moved her country closer to China and the Soviet Union and championed nonalignment.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike (814 words)

	World's first female prime minister, 84: 10/11/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bandaranaike first became prime minister in 1960 -- six years before Indira Gandhi rose to power in India -- and, after decades in politics, regained the office for a third time in 1994.
		Bandaranaike voted in a wheelchair yesterday and suffered a heart attack in her car on her way home.
		Bandaranaike is survived by three children: Kumaratunga; Anura Bandaranaike, a senior opposition candidate; and Senethra Bandaranaike, a philanthropist who is not involved in politics.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/10-00/10-11-00/a09wn010.htm (583 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Sirima Bandaranaike
		Thanks to Sirima Bandaranaike, who has died of a heart attack aged 84, even more than to her husband, the name of Bandaranaike became a legend.
		Sirima Bandaranaike was born Sirima Ratwatte, the daughter of a prominent Sinhalese family in the Kandyan hill country of Ceylon - a perfect match for the wealthy, low-country family of her future husband, with his driving political ambition.
		Her marriage, in 1940, to Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, then a brilliant, young, Oxford- educated colonial government minister, was dubbed "the wedding of the century".
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,380216,00.html (2172 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bandaranaike became the world's first woman prime minister, everyone nationally and internationally was struck by the fact that the world's first woman prime minister should emerge from this small island of ours, an Asian country where at that time women were expected to stay in the background and not enter public life.
		Bandaranaike became Prime Minister, her critics raised their collective eyebrows remarking that she had emerged from domesticity to public life.
		After her husband's assassination, when she was appealed to by a band of strong SLFP loyalists to head the party, it took a lot of mental strength to take a decision to give her undisputed leadership to the party which she held for over 40 years.
	www.dailynews.lk /2001/09/26/fea25.html (1715 words)

	Sri Lanka WORLD:: SWRD, Sirimavo commemorated
		Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike was assassinated, at his Rosmead Place residence, by a Buddhist monk who belonged to a right-wing political group that conspired to kill the Premier.
		Bandaranaike and Mrs.Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who was to succeed her husband as the SLFP leader and Prime Minister in 1960, also to becoming the first woman Prime Minister in the world, were commemorated at the Bandaranaike Samadhi Horagolla yesterday.
		Bandaranaike, was the Leader of the House in the UNP government of 1948 and also held the portfolios of Local Government and Health till 1951.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/2005/9/3730.html (586 words)

	The Bandaranaikes from the House of Nilaperumal by James T.Rutnam with Additional Notes - 18 July 2002
		Don Solomon married a granddaughter of Susanna Scharff, who died on the 15th June 1781 and was buried in the Dutch (formerly Portuguese) church in the Fort at the site of the present Gordon Gardens, but whose tombstone now lies in the Wolvendhal Dutch Reformed Church, Colombo.
		The marriage was solemnized in London in the Church of the parish of St.Martin-in-the-Fields on the 9th June 1820.
		By the time it had turned into the Sinhalese Bandaranaike, the Hinduism of its bearers had been replaced by Buddhism; just as we know, from written genealogical records dating back to the early seventeenth century, that Buddhism was itself replaced in the family by Christianity in its Catholic and later in its Protestant forms.
	www.tamilnation.org /forum/sachisrikantha/bandaranaikes.htm (3392 words)

	Bandaranaike, S.W.R.D. -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		In 1945 Bandaranaike threw the support of the Sabha behind the newly created United National Party (UNP) of D.S. Senanayake, which was to dominate politics for...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310055?tocId=9310055&query=dinis (737 words)

	Election 2004 - HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1963, Bandaranaike suppressed an attempted military uprising but a year later she lost a confidence vote, as well as the subsequent general elections.
		Bandaranaike returned to power after six years in the 1970 general election and proceeded to introduce a new constitution.
		In 1977, Bandaranaike was humiliated in the polls and her dark ages began.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/7066_683318,001600630005.htm (756 words)

	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
		Founded in 1937, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City.
		It is the best-known of several museums founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Solomon-R-Guggenheim-Museum.html (495 words)

	Opposition to assume power in Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Her mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, now 78, became the world's first female prime minister in 1960 when she took over her husband's political party following his assassination in 1959 by a militant Buddhist monk.
		Solomon Bandaranaike, an Oxford-educated lawyer who founded the Sri Lankan Freedom Party, was elected prime minister in 1956.
		Bandaranaike, who is recovering from foot surgery, did not run as a candidate in the election.
	www.tamiltigers.net /tamilcanadian/canada9403a.html (533 words)

	Chandrika Kumaratunga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (born June 29, 1945) is the President of Sri Lanka since 1994.
		Her father, Solomon Bandaranaike, was a government minister at the time of her birth and later became Prime Minister - he was assassinated in 1959 when Chandrika was fourteen.
		After his death, his wife and Chandrika's mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, became the world's first female Prime Minister in 1961.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/c/ch/chandrika_kumaratunga.html (404 words)

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		Bandaranaike was assassinated in 1959, and his widow was elected as his successor in 1960.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike dominated the politics of the island until 1977, when she was unseated by J.R. Jayawardene of the United National party.
		Bandaranaike continued as prime minister, and William Gopallawa was appointed president.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~sydney/politics.htm (1731 words)

	GN Online: English deserves one more chance in Lanka
		Bandaranaike's loyalists argue, to this day, that while his strategy was the only one which would have brought him to power, he had realised the gravity of his action not long after taking residence at Temple Trees (the prime minister's official residence).
		Even for some years after Bandaranaike's assassination, the rural masses - who had tasted a heady period of ape aanduwa (our government), which was not without a liberal dose of indiscipline and 'payback-time' excesses - remained hopeful of joining the English-educated ruling class in the echelons of economic power.
		Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who swept to power on the crest of a sympathy wave following her husband's assassination, tried during a long career to deliver some of Solomon Bandaranaike's and her own promises to the rural masses, with partial success.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=52526 (1061 words)

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		Bandaranaike was an Oxford-educated lawyer who became involved in the politics of his country from an early age.
		In 1977 Sirimavo Bandaranaike was thrown out of office for the second time, following an electoral defeat, and shortly after her defeat a new series of banknotes was introduced without the portrait of Solomon Bandaranaike.
		Her father was Solomon Bandaranaike (already immortalized on the banknotes of Ceylon), her mother was Sirimavo Bandaranaike (a former prime minister of Ceylon), and her husband was Vijaya Kumaratunga.
	www.pjsymes.com.au /articles/husbands.htm (3121 words)

	Bandaranaike, Solomon West Ridgeway Diaz History Summary
		Solomon Bandaranaike's father held the highest position reserved for a "native gentleman" in the British colonial administration, the office of head mudaliyar, which dominated and represented the totality of the Singhalese customary village and district office holders.
		Bandaranaike thus was well prepared to participate in Sri Lankan mass politics as it emerged in the early 1930s.
		From 1959, Bandaranaike's widow, Sirimavo, the daughter of an influential aristocratic family, presided over the party, which won election victories in 1960 and 1970.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/bandaranaike-solomon-west-ridgeway--ema-01 (369 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Sirimavo Bandaranaike: First woman premier
		In 1940, when she was 24, she married Solomon Bandaranaike, who formed the nationalist Sri Lankan Freedom Party and led it to election victory in 1956.
		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.
		By 1976, despite high international standing, Mrs Bandaranaike's popularity at home was declining and she was losing more support on the left, with a faltering economy and allegations of corruption.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/south_asia/964914.stm (613 words)

	Daily Mirror Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, addressing a meeting on March 8, to mark International Women's Day, referred to the granting of Independence to Sri Lanka on February 4, 1948, and decried the top hat and tail coat that was worn by D.S.Senanayake fondly remembered as the 'Father of the Nation' on that memorable occasion.
		Added she, that it was only Solomon W.R.D.Bandaranaike who graced the occasion wearing the national dress and that she is proud to be his daughter.
		Solomon, chose to discard not only the Western attire but even his religion as a quick fix to gain power.
	www.dailymirror.lk /inside/letters/030519.html (3499 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)

	Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (1899-1959) was Prime Minister (1956-59) of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka).
		He was the husband of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and father of Chandrika Kumaratunga and Anura Bandaranaike
		In 1951 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike led his faction, the Sinhala Maha Sabha, out of the ruling UNP and established the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Solomon_West_Ridgeway_Dias_Bandaranaike (234 words)

	Family #1001 Bandaranaike
		Don Solomon married a grand-daughter of Susanna Scharff, who died on June 15, 1781 and was buried in the Dutch (formerly Portuguese) church in the Fort at the site of the present Gordon Gardens, but whose tombstone now lies in the Wolfendhal Dutch Reformed Church, Colombo.
		The coat of arms of the Scharff family is engraved on this tombstone, the distinguishing mark of which is a `right arm holding a sabre.' This is part of the heraldic arms of the Bandaranayakes.
		Don Solomon's son, Don Christoffel Henricus Dias Bandaranaike, who was born in 1826, succeeded his father.
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/gen1001.htm (2515 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Bandaranaike Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias
		Bandaranaike, Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias (1916-2000), Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1960-1965, 1970-1977, and 1994-2000, the first woman...
		After the assassination of President Ranasinghe Premadasa in May 1993, Kamaratunga became chief minister of the Western Provincial Council.
		Bandaranaike, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias (1899-1959), prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka; 1956-1959), born in Horagolla.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Bandaranaike_Sirimavo_Ratwatte_Dias.html (91 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 20 \| 1960: Ceylon chooses world's first woman PM
		Mrs Bandaranaike was born into the Ceylon aristocracy and her husband was a landowner.
		Mr Bandaranaike attributed her success to the "people's love and respect" for her late husband and urged her supporters to practise "simple living, decorum and dignity".
		Mrs Bandaranaike inherits a country in a state of flux and her party's proposed programme of nationalisation may bring her into conflict with foreign interests in commodities like tea, rubber and oil.
	newssearch.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_2784000/2784527.stm (471 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bandaranaike Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias
		Bandaranaike, Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias (1916-2000), prime minister of Sri Lanka (1960-1965, 1970-1977, 1994-2000), the first woman in the history of...
		Bandaranaike, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias (1899-1959), prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka; 1956-59), born in Colombo.
		Bandaranaike, Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias: picture of Sirimavo Bandaranaike
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