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1. COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS
A free association of
sovereign states comprising
the United Kingdom and a
number of its former
dependencies who have
chosen to maintain ties of
friendship and practical
cooperation and who
acknowledge the British
monarch as symbolic head of
their association. In 1965 the
Commonwealth Secretariat
was established in London to
organize and coordinate
Commonwealth activities.

2. SOME COMMONWEALTH NATIONS
 United Kingdom
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 South Africa
 India
 Pakistan
 Sri Lanka
 Malaysia
 Nigeria
 Cyprus
 Sierra Leone
 Tanzania

3. SRI LANKA : LOCATION
Sri Lanka(Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka) is an
island country lying in the
Indian Ocean and separated
from peninsular India by the
Palk Strait. It is located
between latitudes 5°55′ and
9°51′ N and longitudes 79°41′
and 81°53′ E and has a
maximum length of 268 miles
(432 km) and a maximum
width of 139 miles (224 km).

4. SRI LANKA : CULTURE
Sri Lanka is a land
of great cultural
diversity. Buddhist
and Hindu temples,
as well as mosques
and churches, with
their own colourful
rituals, are the most
readily visible
features of the
cultural landscape.

5. SRI LANKA: CAUSE OF BRITISH ATTRACTION
The British East India Company’s
conquest of Sri Lanka, which the
British called Ceylon, occurred during
the wars of the French Revolution
(1792–1801). When the Netherlands
came under French control, the British
began to move into Sri Lanka from
India. The British had thought the
conquest temporary and administered
the island from Madras in southern
India. The war with France revealed
Sri Lanka’s strategic value, however,
and the British consequently decided
to make their hold on the island
permanent.

6. SRI LANKA: UNDER BRITISH RULE
They generally used Srilankan resources to
increase the productivity of coffee,rubber,tea etc.
They introduced changes in agricultural practices
and horticultural techniques, but these
developments were essentially restricted to the
urban areas and the plantation country. The rest
of the country continued with subsistence
farming, using traditional methods. However,
roads and railways helped to reduce the isolation
of the villages, and increased trade gradually
pulled the rural population into the monetary
economy.

7. SRI LANKA : TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE
In 1919, major Sinhalese and Tamil
political organisations united to form
the Ceylon National Congress, under
the leadership of Ponnambalam
Arunachalam, pressing colonial
masters for more constitutional
reforms. The Sri Lankan independence
movement was a peaceful political
movement which aimed at achieving
independence and self-rule for Sri
Lanka, then Ceylon, from the British
Empire. It was initiated around the turn
of the 20th century and led mostly by
the educated middle class. It
succeeded when, on February 4, 1948,
Ceylon was granted autonomy as the
Dominion of Ceylon. Afterwards, it

8. SRI LANKA: PRESENT SITUATION
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte & Colombo are the
capitals of Sri Lanka. The Area of Sri Lanka is
65,610 km2. The population of Sri lanka is
2.328 billion(estimation 2013). President: Maithripala
Sirisena, Prime Minister: Ranil Wickremesinghe. The
main source of Government income is tourism.
There is no foreign rule on Sri lanka. Sinhalese &
tamil are common spoken languages. The national
game of Sri Lanka is volleyball. The time of Sri Lanka
is GMT+5:30.

9. Made By : Abhinav
Prasoon
Class – IX-D