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After the election Chelvanayakam met with UNP leader Dudley Senanayake who agreed to Chelvanayakam's conditions for supporting a UNP led government. The agreement, known as the Dudley-Chelvanayakam Pact (D-C Pact), was put down on paper and signed by Chelvanayakam and Senanayake on 24 March 1965. [100]
- University of Toronto Scarborough Library
- S.J.V. Chelvanayakam fonds
Mar 31, 2008 · S.J.V. Chelvanayakam (1898-1977), a ranking civil lawyer and legislator, was probably the well known Parkinson disease victim in the 20th century Sri Lanka. He was born in Ipoh, Malaya, where his father had moved in the last decade of the 19th century for professional advancement.
Apr 27, 2014 · A J Wilson writes in his book: S J V Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism that, “for Chelvanayakam and the Federal Party the most disturbing aspects of this constitution-making process was the decision to enshrine the Sinhala language as the one official language, to reduce the status of Tamil to a language requiring translation, to provide special provision to Buddhism and to do away with section 29 of the Soulbury Constitution which had hitherto been a covenant ...
S. J. V. Chelvanayakam. KC MP. Leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front; In office 1972–1977: Succeeded by: Appapillai Amirthalingam: Leader of the Illankai ...
Mar 31, 2023 · Remembering S. J. V. Chelvanayakam. March 31st 2023 marks the 125th anniversary of S. J. V. Chelvanayakam. The University of Toronto Scarborough Library Archives & Special Collections contains his archives, which reflect his career as a political leader of the Sri Lankan Tamil community from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam was a Ceylonese lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament. He was the founder and leader of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) and Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and a political leader of the Ceylon Tamil community for more than two decades. Chelvanayakam has been described as a father figure to Ceylon's Tamils, to whom he was known as "Thanthai Chelva".
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S.J. Chelvanayakam was one of the most prominent leaders of the Ceylon Tamils before and after the end of colonial rule, and in the early days of their struggle for political and economic equality.
