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Dudley Senanayake

1911–1973

How Dudley Senanayake is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 2 other works — including NATIONALISATION AT THE CROSSROADS , and Congress Misrule and the Swatantra Alternative .

In Congress Misrule and the Swatantra Alternative : Senanayake's 1965 victory in Ceylon is cited as a regional precedent — a Congress-type government displaced by a liberal one — to demonstrate that Swatantra's democratic transition is electorally plausible, not utopian.

In NATIONALISATION AT THE CROSSROADS : Senanayake is cited as one of two Asian premiers (alongside U Nu) whose 1960 declarations are presented as public repudiations of nationalisation by governments that had earlier embraced it — international evidence for Desai's worldwide-retreat thesis.

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Primary works (2)

  • Congress Misrule and the Swatantra Alternative · 1966
    • "Ceylon's 1965 displacement of a Congress-type government by Dudley Senanayake's liberal government is cited in the rendered pages as proof that such a democratic transition is achievable." — Senanayake serves as the South Asian existence-proof that a liberal alternative to a long-ruling congress-type incumbent can win
  • NATIONALISATION AT THE CROSSROADS · 1962
    • "Ceylon's Dudley Senanayake declared in March 1960 that nationalisation as an end in itself was something to which his government was 'certainly not wedded'" — Senanayake's March 1960 declaration cited as Asian government repudiation of nationalisation doctrine
    • "Ceylon Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake's March 26, 1960 declaration as public repudiations of nationalisation by Asian governments that had earlier embraced it." — key-point framing of Senanayake's role in the international-evidence section