EVENT INFORMATION

4
Febrüari
1948

Ceylon gains independence under Dominion status

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📅 4 Febrüari 1948 📍 Sri Lanka

Ceylon gained independence as a Dominion within the Commonwealth. The transfer left substantial constitutional and economic ties to Britain and did not dismantle plantation structures built through colonial rule. Indian Tamil plantation workers remained politically marginalized by citizenship laws, showing that formal independence did not automatically extend equal rights to all communities.

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🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

D. S. Senanayake

Ceylonese workers

Indian Tamil plantation communities

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Ceylon

British Empire

Ceylon National Archives