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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ Ceylon Year Book 1968 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 15–16.
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- ↑ Jiggins, Janice (1979). Caste and Family Politics Sinhalese 1947-1976. Cambridge University Press. p. 120. ISBN 9780521220699.
- ↑ The last hours of a great statesman
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