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  • Whereas the governments of the Senanayake and Bandaranaike family dynasties hailed from the relatively moderate Colombo-centric elite, the Rajapaksas are more representative of the somewhat xenophobic, semi-literate, and collectivist rural part of the Sinhalese Buddhist population.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Whereas the governments of the Senanayake and Bandaranaike family dynasties hailed from the relatively moderate Colombo-centric elite, the Rajapaksas are more representative of the somewhat xenophobic, semi-literate, and collectivist rural part of the Sinhalese Buddhist population.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Whereas the governments of the Senanayake and Bandaranaike family dynasties hailed from the relatively moderate Colombo-centric elite, the Rajapaksas are more representative of the somewhat xenophobic, semi-literate, and collectivist rural part of the Sinhalese Buddhist population.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike (the first female Prime Minister in the world … in 1960!).

    Women Grow Business » Is Presidents’ Day Another Glass Ceiling? 2010

  • The B-C (Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam) pact between the Sinhalese premiere and the Federalist Tamil leader averted the calamity.

    From Ceylon to Sri Lanka 2008

  • They discarded their policy of parity for Tamil and adopted the Bandaranaike slogan ..

    From Ceylon to Sri Lanka 2008

  • Sri LankaSirimavo Bandaranaike -- Anura BandaranaikeThe former prime minister, whose party is now out of power, wants her daughter to succeed her.

    'Dynasty' Meets 'Family Feud' 2008

  • Bandaranaike and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) were defeated in elections by the United National Party (UNP), led by J.R. Jayawardene.

    1977, Feb 2001

  • Since it overwhelmed the leftist regime of Mrs. Srimayo Bandaranaike in the 1977 national elections, the government of President Junius Jayawardene has been chipping away at one of the most complicated and burdensome combinations of restrictive regulation and high taxation ever concocted by 20th century socialists.

    Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000

  • Since it overwhelmed the leftist regime of Mrs. Srimayo Bandaranaike in the 1977 national elections, the government of President Junius Jayawardene has been chipping away at one of the most complicated and burdensome combinations of restrictive regulation and high taxation ever concocted by 20th century socialists.

    Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000

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