1921 Ceylonese Legislative Council election information

third election to the Legislative Council of Ceylon was held on 21 April 1921. In 1833 the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission created the Legislative Council of...

second election to the Legislative Council of Ceylon was held 20 January 1917. In 1833 the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission created the Legislative Council of...

other appointees). The old Legislative Council was dissolved in August 1924 and elections held. Less than 205,000 Ceylonese (4%) were eligible to vote...

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contested the 1911 legislative council election as a candidate for the Educated Ceylonese seat and was elected to the Legislative Council, defeating physician...

1853 – 9 January 1924) was a Ceylonese civil servant and a member of the Executive Council of Ceylon and Legislative Council of Ceylon. Arunachalam was...

the Legislative Council representing the North Western Province- Eastern Division, Narammala in the 1921 Ceylonese Legislative Council election and was...

The Legislative Council of Ceylon was the legislative body of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1833, along with the Executive Council of Ceylon, on...

Rajapakse (1864 – ????) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon from 1921 to 1924. Born in Colombo to...

1877 – 8 May 1936) was a Ceylonese industrialist, lawyer, philanthropist and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Council and founder of the H.L...

1921. Mahadeva contested the 1924 legislative council election as a candidate for the Western Province Tamil seat and was elected to the Legislative Council...

elected to the Legislative Council for the Ceylonese seat. He was reelected in the 1921 Legislative Council election. Alvis married Madeleine Cecilia Daniel...

nomination to the Legislative Council of Ceylon. On two occasions when nominations had to be made for the position of "an educated Ceylonese" James Peiris...

a pre-independence Ceylonese statesman, physician and banker. He was a member of both the executive council and legislative council as well as the chairman...

1921 Legislative Council election as a candidate in Northern Province and was elected to the Legislative Council. He contested the 1924 Legislative Council...

Armand de Souza (29 October 1874 – 1921) was a Ceylonese newspaper editor and democratic activist. De Souza was born in Assagaum, Goa, to a Roman Catholic...

order in council introduced restrictions on the citizenship of Indian workers to make the Donoughmore proposals acceptable to the Ceylonese leaders. Thus...

Governor as a nominated unofficial member of the reorganised Legislative Council, 1921; re-elected by the people for five years from 1924", Who Was Who...

Loos (21 July 1865-????) was a Ceylonese lawyer, judge and legislator. He was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. Born in Colombo to...

whereas Sri Lankan Tamils formed 12.8% of the population of 4,106,400; in 1921, 13.4% and 11.5%; in 1931, 15.2% and 11.3%, and in 1946, 11.7% and 11.0%...

opportunity, Weld introduced a Bill which provided for the election of 12 Members of the Legislative Council, to sit with six official and nominee members. The...

Government Minister, Member of Legislative Council, Member of State Council, High Commissioner to India Balakumar (Baku) Mahadeva, (1921–2013) Pathmavathy Arunachalam...

after. In the legislative council the British assigned three European seats and one seat each for Sinhalese, Tamils and Burghers. This council's primary function...

maritime provinces as a single unit of government. An executive council and a legislative council were established, later becoming the foundation of a representative...