1948 in Sri Lanka

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Decades:

1940s

Incumbents

British Ceylon (until 4 February)

Governor
Henry Monck-Mason Moore (Until 4 February)
Prime Minister
D. S. Senanayake
Speaker of the Parliament
Alexander Francis Molamure
Chief Justice
John Curtois Howard
Leader of the Opposition
N. M. Perera

Dominion of Ceylon (from 4 February)

Governor-General
Henry Monck-Mason Moore (from 4 February)
Prime Minister
D. S. Senanayake
Speaker of the Parliament
Alexander Francis Molamure
Leader of the Opposition
N. M. Perera

Events

February

4 February – British Ceylon is disestablished as Sri Lanka gains its independence as the Dominion of Ceylon.
23 February – The film Kapati Arakshakaya is released.

March

19 March – The Australian cricket team stops by in Ceylon, en route to England during their 1948 tour of England, where they played a one-day single-innings match—not limited overs—against the Ceylon national team at the Colombo Oval.^[1]^[2]^[3]

May

22 May – The film Divya Premaya is released.

June

4 July – Several Ceylonese individuals are included in the list of British 1948 Birthday Honours.

July

29 July–14 August – Ceylon competes in the Summer Olympics for the first time in London, sending 7 athletes.
31 July – Ceylonese athlete Duncan White wins the silver medal in the Men's 400 metres hurdles, becoming the first Ceylonese athlete to win an Olympic medal.

August

20 August – The controversial Ceylon Citizenship Act is passed in parliarment.^[4]

November

15 November – The Ceylon Citizenship Act becomes law qualifying only about 5,000 Indian Tamils for citizenship. More than 700,000 people, about 11% of the population, were denied citizenship and rendered stateless.^[5]

December

3 December – The film Veradunu Kurumanama is released.

Births

February

2 February – Lakshman Kiriella, lawyer, politician
21 February – Sumana Amarasinghe, actress (d. 2022)

April

13 April – Arul Pragasam, activist, rebel (d. 2019)
24 April – Gangodawila Soma Thero, Buddhist monk (d. 2003)

May

11 May – Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-British politician^[6]

June

8 June – D. A. M. R. Samarasekara, admiral
12 June – Jayalath Manoratne, actor (d. 2020)
21 June – Rukman Senanayake, politician

July

4 July
- Wimal Kumara de Costa, actor (d. 2016)
- Suminda Sirisena, actor (d. 2023)
11 July – Duleep De Chickera, Anglican Bishop of Colombo
17 July – Cletus Mendis, actor
22 July – Chandran Rutnam, filmmaker, entrepreneur
24 July – K. Sri Dhammaratana, Buddhist monk

October

23 October – M. H. M. Ashraff, lawyer, politician, founder and leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (d. 2000)

Date Unknown

Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, physician
Maru Sira, criminal (d. 1975)

Deaths

6 February – Bernard Henry Bourdillon, 64, British colonial administrator (b. 1883)

References

^ Donaldson, Michael (3 October 2002). "Jailbirds swell crowd at Colombo Test". ESPNcricinfo. Australian Associated Press. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
^ "The Don's Island connection - Indian Express". Indian Express. 24 July 2010. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
^ "Ceylon v Australians". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
^ Ethnic Conflict of Sri Lanka: Time Line - From Independence to 1999 Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, International Centre for Ethnic Studies
^ Ethnic Conflict of Sri Lanka: Time Line - From Independence to 1999 Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, International Centre for Ethnic Studies
^ "Sri Lankan History". OnThisDay.com.

Years in Sri Lanka

British Ceylon period (1815–1948)

Sri Lanka (1948–present)

Timeline of Sri Lankan history

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