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Dudley Shelton Senanayake

prime minister of Ceylon

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hartal of 1953

In hartal
…July 1953, Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake of the United National Party drastically reduced the subsidies, causing the price of rice to triple.
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history of Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka: Independent Ceylon (1948–71)
…it returned to power under Dudley Shelton Senanayake, who, as the son of Don Stephen Senanayake, had served as prime minister (1952–53) after his father’s death and briefly in 1960. Senanayake’s government enjoyed a five-year term of office, during which it encouraged private enterprise and made an effort to extend…
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