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	Encyclopedia: History of Sri Lanka
		Tamil people from India began to arrive in Sri Lanka as early as the 3rd century BC, and there were repeated wars between the Sinhalese and Indian invaders, and for much of the first millennium AD the island was controlled by various Tamil princes.
		The British found that the uplands of Sri Lanka were very suited to tea, coffee and rubber cultivation, and by the mid 19th century Ceylon tea had become a staple of the British market, bringing great wealth to a small class of white tea planters.
		Under Bandaranaike the country became a republic, the Free Sovereign and Independent Republic of Sri Lanka, the Senate was abolished and the position of Sinhala as the official language (with Tamil as a second language) was confirmed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Sri-Lanka (6282 words)

	India - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about India
		In addition to having to deal with the virtual civil war in the Punjab caused by the mass migrations, the new government had to deal with the problems associated with the Princely States (see India of the Princes), the territories in the subcontinent that were ruled by native princes, not directly under British rule.
		A new coalition of centrist and leftist parties was formed in June, headed by H D Deve Gowda of the NF–LF (now the United Front), which enjoyed the tacit backing of the Congress Party.
		The party's president Sitaram Kesri took over as parliamentary leader in January 1997; he criticized the programme of economic liberalization that had been introduced six years earlier, believing that the reforms had been implemented too quickly and with too great a burden being placed on the poor.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /India (8423 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sri Lanka - Growth of Leftist Parties \| Sri Lankan Information Resource
		The LSSP, formed in 1935 and the oldest of the Sri Lankan Marxist parties, took a stance independent of the Soviet Union, becoming affiliated with the Trotskyite Fourth International, which was a rival of the Comintern.
		Sri Lanka - DECLINE OF THE SINHALESE KINGDOM, 1200-1500
		Sri Lanka - Sinhalese Migration to the South
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/sri-lanka/sri-lanka33.html (595 words)

	History of Poland
		In October 1956, after the 20th ("de-Stalinization") Soviet Party Congress in Moscow and riots by workers in Poznan, there was a shakeup in the communist regime.
		The discontent underlying the strikes was intensified by revelations of widespread corruption and mismanagement within the Polish state and party leadership.
		In the 1997 parliamentary elections, two parties with roots in the Solidarity movement--Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) and the Freedom Union (UW)--won 261 of the 460 seats in the Sejm and formed a coalition government.
	infotut.com /geography/Poland (2188 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		The surprising first round success of the fundamentalist FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) party in the December 1991 balloting caused the army to intervene, crack down on the FIS, and postpone the subsequent elections.
		On 21 November 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, the warring parties signed a peace agreement that brought to a halt the three years of interethnic civil strife (the final agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995).
		Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) was sworn in on 1 December 2000 as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Bahrain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		adopted late December 2000; Bahrani voters approved on 13-14 February 2001 a referendum on legislative changes (revised constitution calls for a partially elected legislature, a constitutional monarchy, and an independent judiciary)
		political parties prohibited but politically oriented societies are allowed
		Shi'a activists fomented unrest sporadically in 1994-97, demanding the return of an elected National Assembly and an end to unemployment; several small, clandestine leftist and Islamic fundamentalist groups are active
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/geos/ba.html (1126 words)

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