J. R. Jayewardene

J. R. Jayewardene Junius Richard Jayewardene (; ; 17 September 1906 – 1 November 1996), commonly abbreviated in Sri Lanka as J.R., was a Sri Lankan lawyer, Public official and a stateman who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the second President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989. He was a leader of the nationalist movement in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) who served in a variety of cabinet positions in the decades following independence. A longtime member of the United National Party, he led it to a landslide victory in 1977 and served as Prime Minister for half a year before becoming the country's first executive president under an amended constitution.

A controversial figure in the history of Sri Lanka, while the open economic system he introduced in 1978 brought the country out of the economic turmoil Sri Lanka was facing as the result of the preceding closed economic policies, Jayawardene's actions, including his response to the Black July riots of 1983, have been accused of contributing to the beginnings of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Jayewardene, Junius Richard
    Published 1978
    [s.l. : s.n., 1978]
    95 p. ; 22 cm.
  2. 2
    by Jayewardene, Junius Richard
    Published 1979
    [Colombo : Dept. of Information, Sri Lanka, 1979]
    56 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  3. 3
    by Jayewardene, Junius Richard
    Published 1974
    Colombo : H.W. Cave, 1974.
    1 online resource (101, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates) : illustrations.
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource
  4. 4
    by Jayewardene, Junius Richard
    Published 1974
    Colombo : H.W. Cave, 1974.
    101, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  5. 5
    by Jayewardene, Junius Richard
    Published 1982
    [Colombo] : Pravrtti Depārtamēntuva, Rājya Amātyāṃśaya, [1982]
    [48] p. : ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.
  6. 6
    by Jayewardene, Junius Richard
    Published 1978
    [Colombo : Ministry of Information & Broadcasting], 1978.
    88 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  7. 7
    by Jayewardene, Junius Richard
    Published 1980
    Koḷamba : Guṇasēna, 1980.
    134 p. ; 20 cm.
  8. 8
    by Jayewardene, Junius Richard
    Published 1978
    [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1978]
    1 online resource (95 pages)
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource

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