SLFP

Question 1

Who was SLFP founded by?

Answer 1

S.W.R.D Bandaranaike.

Question 2

When was SLFP founded?

Answer 2

1951

Question 3

Who was S.W.R.D Bandaranaike?

Answer 3

The fourth PM of Ceylon in 1956

Question 4

When and who by was S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike killed?

Answer 4

1959, by a Buddhist Monk

Question 5

Who took over S.W.R.D.’s place as SLFP leader?

Answer 5

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, his wife.

Question 6

Who was the first female PM in the world?

Answer 6

Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

Question 7

When was the first female PM in the world in power?

Answer 7

1960

Question 8

What was Sirimavo Bandaranaike known for?

Answer 8

International policy;
Nationalisation of banks, education, industry, media and trade.

Question 9

Why was there severe economic decline in her time?

Answer 9

Standard of living lowered;

High inflation rates + taxes;

Greater dependence on food imports;

High unemployment

Question 10

When did Sirimavo come back into power?

Answer 10

1970

Question 11

Who did Sirimavo join her party with?

Answer 11

Two other parties to form UF

Question 12

What does UF stand for?

Answer 12

United Front

Question 13

What happened in 1972?

Answer 13

The UF delivered a new constitution;

Sri Lanka went from a dominion to the Socialist Republic of SL.

Question 14

What did SWRD campaign in the 1956 election?

Answer 14

On a ‘Sinhala Only’ platform -

> ## stated that English and Tamil were cultural exportscampaigned as a “defender of a beseigned Sinhalese culture”

Question 15

When was the Sinhala Only Act?

Answer 15

1956

Question 16

What was the Sinhala Only Act?

Answer 16

Aimed to make Sinhala the only official state language.

Tamil speaking population discriminated and left at serious disadvantage

Question 17

What was the Tamil response to the Sinhala Only Act?

Answer 17

Tamils were upset.
Lead by Federal party, staged a non-violent protest.
First calls for a separate Tamil state (Eelam)

Question 18

When were the first Anti-Tamil riots?

Answer 18

1956 & 1958

Question 19

What were the first Anti-Tamil riots?

Answer 19

100s of Tamils killed or raped.

Gov declared state of emergency.

Forcibly relocated 25,000 Tamils away from Sinhalese areas in the South to Tamil areas in the North.

Question 20

What was the cause of the anti-Sri campaign organized by the Federal Party?

Answer 20

The government’s addition of the Sinhala Sri to car license plates

Question 21

When was the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam pact?

Answer 21

1957

Question 22

What was the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam pact?

Answer 22

Due to the mounting ethnic tension, SWRD met with the Federal party and decided to compromise on the use of Tamil in the North and East.

Question 23

What was significant about the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam pact?

Answer 23

First time both ethnic groups had reached a political agreement

Question 24

Why did the B-C pact fail?

Answer 24

SWRD gave into pressure from Sinhalist nationalists who opposed it.

Question 25

When did the B-C pact fail?

Answer 25

1958

Question 26

What did the public tearing of the B-C pact symbolize?

Answer 26

The breached trust between the Sinhalese and Tamils.

Question 27

What happened to the Ceylon Administrative Service in 1970?

Answer 27

1956 => 30% 1970 => 5%

Question 28

What happened to the Tamil engineers and doctors?

Answer 28

1965 => 60% 1970 => 10%

Question 29

What happened to the armed forced?

Answer 29

1965 => 40% 1970 => 1%

Question 30

When did the B-C pact formally take place?

Answer 30

1961

Question 31

What did Sirimavo do once initiating the the Sinhala Only Act?

Answer 31

Sent the army to crush opposition in Jaffna (RULED WITH ZHE IRON FIZT) This led to the deep hatred of the Sri Lankan army, which was also seen as a Sinhala occupation force in the North.

Question 32

What was the Sirima-Shastri Pact?

Answer 32

Signed an agreement with India to forcefully send Indian Tamil workers (who lacked Ceylonese citizenship) back to India. 525,000 sent repatriated to India

Question 33

When was the Sirima-Shastri pact?

Answer 33

1964

Question 34

What was banned from importing in the 1970s?

Answer 34

Tamil-language books, films, magazines, journals from the cultural hub of Tamil Nadu was banned.

Question 35

What was the 1971 Policy of Standardization?

Answer 35

Discriminatory regulation to reduce the number of Tamil students in university. Tamil students had to achieve higher grades to enter university. Number of Tamils that were admitted to uni dropped dramatically. Policy annulled in 1977

Question 36

What was the 1972 constitution by Sirimavo B?

Answer 36

Limited freedom of press --> Censorship of Tamil Media Declared SL as a Buddhist country, gave Buddhism the prior-most importance in the ocuntry. Confirmed Sinhala as official language, with no concessions to Tamils.