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4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956 to 1959

Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike^{[alt 1]} (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), serving from 1956 until his assassination.

The founder of the left-wing and Sinhalese nationalistSri Lanka Freedom Party, his tenure saw the country's first left-wing reforms.

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Born to a wealthy, political family, he studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Returning to Ceylon, he entered local politics by joining the Ceylon National Congress.

Having been elected to the Colombo Municipal Council in 1926, he was elected from his family seat in Veyangoda to the State Council of Ceylon for two terms between 1931 and 1947, while serving in th