Tikiri Bandara Bulankulama Dissawa was Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

n politician. He was Minister of Land and Land Development in the cabinet of Sir

Sir

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 John Kotelawala

John Kotelawala

General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala, KBE, CH, KStJ, CLI was a Sri Lankan soldier and politician, most notable for serving as the 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1953 to 1956....

. and deputy minister of agriculture and lands during the first cabinet Don Stephen Senanayake

Don Stephen Senanayake

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. He was elected to parliament form the Anuradhapura District

Anuradhapura District

Anuradhapura is a district in North Central Province, Sri Lanka. Its area is 7,179 km².-Demographics:The population according to 2001 census is 745,693 of which 90.7 % are sinhalese, 8.3 % Sri Lankan Moors, 0.7 % native Sri Lankan tamils and 0.1 % tamils of Indian origin...

 where he had been given the title of Dissawa of Anuradhapura by the British government of Ceylon. Educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo

Royal College Colombo

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 he played in the Royal-Thomian

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