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Posted on April 13th, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS S.W.R.D Bandaranaike was Prime Minister for a very short time, 1956- 1959. Throughout this period, he was soundly ridiculed. Praise for Bandaranaike came several decades later when the MEP period came into historical review and it was found that changes initiated had become entrenched, also that they were good. Then they started to praise Bandaranaike as a person. Guruge (1999) said he admired SWRD’s extraordinary intellectual and oratorical skills. Bradman Weerakoon (2004) said SWRD was ‘uncommon man in the age of the common man’ HSS Nissanka (1976) reported that KPS Menon said Bandaranaike was
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Posted on April 8th, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunawardene accomplished much in food and agriculture during his short stay of three years in the MEP government. These are described at length in other essays in this series. This essay looks at certain aspects of Philip’s vision. Philip studied the rural sector carefully. Philip said that the peasantry had many problems, poverty, indebtedness, need for credit, lack of scientific techniques of production, and marketing facilities. Two main obstacles to agricultural progress were the backwardness of the agricultural techniques used which result in poor yields and the fact that villagers were landless or had insufficient
Posted on April 7th, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunawardene returned to Sri Lanka in 1932 after ten hectic years abroad. Of all the socialist politicians in the island, Philip Gunawardene is the only politician to have had close contact with socialist movements abroad, observed Ananda Meegama. He had met with revolutionaries and freedom fighters in four continents. Philip said he has associated with socialists of different brands from pale pink to dark red in various parts of the world. His father got to know something of his son’s activities when Queen’s Counsel R.L. Pereira returned from New York. Pereira had watched a massive demonstration by the Hotel Workers
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Posted on April 3rd, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS The 1956 government attempted to radically reform the economy. It was the first Sri Lanka government to try to do so. It was also the first government, and the only government to date, to see the need for a modern policy of Industrialization for Sri Lanka. There were no local industries when MEP came to power in 1956, everything was imported. The country was importing everything, from a pin, comb, pencil, and biscuit to mammoties, water pumps, agriculture and industrial machinery, reported economists. MEP had a long term plan for industrialization. The state would lead with a
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