Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1960 to 1965, from 1970 to 1977,
The Mahawalatenne family, including Mahawalatenne Rate Mahattaya (back row right) and Agnes Mahawalatenne (née Ellawala, front row right), the maternal grandparents of Sirima Ratwatte.
Horagolla Walawwa, the Bandaranaike ancestral manor
The Old Parliament Building in Colombo, where the House of Representatives met beginning in 1947
Bandaranaike with Soviet Union Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin, Senior Advisor (Foreign Affairs) to the Prime Minister Tissa Wijeyeratne and Anura Bandaranaike
Junius Richard Jayewardene, commonly referred to by his initials JR, was a Sri Lankan lawyer, public official and statesman who served as prime minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the secon
Jayewardene in 1984
J. R. with his parents and siblings.
The first Cabinet of Ministers of Ceylon
J. R. Jayewardene in the 1970s